I agree… it’s the “game freezes on external monitor” issue I’m hoping to solve by downgrading the drivers. As mentioned before, there’s 2 issues:
- F40 only - games freeze if started on external monitor - both Proton 8 and 9
- Proton 9 only - games ignore Primary monitor and use 0,0 - both F37 and F40
Downgrading the NVIDIA drivers is an attempt to fix the 1st issue only.
I’m not sure either, I took it from this post. But if removing and installing accomplishes the same thing, I’m fine with that. So, I assume that means this:
# dnf remove \*nvidia\* --exclude nvidia-gpu-firmware
# dnf config-manager --set-disabled rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
# dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
(wait for akmods)
# reboot
When I originally installed the NVIDIA drivers a few weeks ago, I only explicitly installed the akmod-nvidia package, so I assume that still holds true now - ie. installing akmod-nvidia will trigger installing all the other xorg-x11-drv-nvidia* packages needed.
I initially didn’t install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda because I didn’t think it was needed for gaming. I later installed it only because it contains the nvidia-smi command, which I’ve been using for testing purposes.
Ah… thank you. Good to know.