Hi,
I’ve just switched from running Arch Linux on my PC to running Fedora 38. I’m now seeing some really weird behaviour in my graphics card driver (Nvidia driver). My Graphics Card is a 3080. I’ve had to jump through some (expected) hoops to get Fedora to install at all (adding nomodeset nouveau.nomodeset=1 to the grub command line. After that, it installed fine.
I’ve installed the proprietary Nvidia driver through rpmfusion (akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda). Once installed, after a few minutes (if I don’t reboot) the system sometimes freezes (no errors found using journalctl). However, if I then press the reset button of my PC, it reboots successfully to SDDM and I can log in and it’s all working fine. As long as I only reboot after that, it keeps working fine. As soon as I shut down though and turn the PC back on, it stops booting (black screen, boot not listed in journalctl) and I have to add nomodeset and change nvidia_drm.modeset from 1 to 0 (it would boot without this change, but there’s some weird behaviour too, like the boot screen showing from time to time and it would sometimes crash, or show a black screen).
When it is working, it’s working great. Games run fine, and there’s no Problem. I’m out of clues as to what might be the problem. I’ve not had any of these kinds of issues running Arch with the proprietary Nvidia driver, using SDDM, KDE and Wayland, it would always boot, with Nvidia drm enabled, with or without Plymouth.
The Nvidia driver being the issue here is not confirmed, it’s just an educated guess on my part because of all the points listed above.
Additional note: I’ve got secure-boot enabled and the Nvidia driver is signed and loaded without any issues - the problems occur both with secure-boot turned on and off. They also occur, with all 3 boot options (kernel 6.4, 6.4 and rescue) and also with a different boot loaders (e.g. rEFInd)
Does anyone here have ideas on what i could try or what might be the problem here?
Hello Jannis and welcome to ask 
This sounds like an issue with the kernel command line options during boot that may cause the issue.
Please post the output of the following commands using the preformatted text tags with the </> button on the toolbar.
cat /proc/cmdline
cat /etc/default/grub
inxi -Fzxx
dnf list installed \*nvidia\*
Hi Jeff,
thanks for the quick reply. Here’s the outout of the commands:
cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=(hd4,gpt2)/vmlinuz-6.4.12-200.fc38.x86_64 root=UUID=a0015b0e-e1e6-4c96-ba9a-dbc4c0f2b930 ro rootflags=subvol=root00 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1 rhgb quiet```
cat /etc/default/grub
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1 rhgb quiet"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true
inxi -Fzxx
System:
Kernel: 6.4.12-200.fc38.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 2.39-9.fc38 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.7 tk: Qt v: 5.15.10
wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM Distro: Fedora release 38 (Thirty Eight)
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: MPG Z490 GAMING CARBON WIFI (MS-7C73)
v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1.70
date: 02/04/2021
CPU:
Info: 8-core model: Intel Core i7-10700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Comet Lake rev: 5 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 2 MiB L3: 16 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 4881 high: 4918 min/max: 800/12000 cores: 1: 4900
2: 4893 3: 4900 4: 4901 5: 4918 6: 4589 7: 4904 8: 4900 9: 4901 10: 4900
11: 4900 12: 4900 13: 4901 14: 4900 15: 4900 16: 4900 bogomips: 121596
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CometLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 ports: active: none empty: DP-1,
HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, HDMI-A-3 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9bc5
Device-2: NVIDIA GA102 [GeForce RTX 3080] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: nvidia v: 535.98 arch: Ampere pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
active: none off: DP-2,DP-3,HDMI-A-4 empty: DP-4 bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:2206
Device-3: Logitech BRIO Ultra HD Webcam driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
type: USB rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-3.3:10
chip-ID: 046d:085e
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa alternate: nv dri: iris gpu: i915,nvidia
d-rect: 6400x2520 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-2 pos: top-center res: 2560x1440 size: N/A
Monitor-2: DP-3 pos: bottom-l res: 1920x1080 size: N/A
Monitor-3: HDMI-A-4 pos: bottom-r res: 1920x1080 size: N/A
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.98 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX
3080/PCIe/SSE2 direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:06c8
Device-2: NVIDIA GA102 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:1aef
Device-3: Logitech BRIO Ultra HD Webcam driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
type: USB rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-3.3:10
chip-ID: 046d:085e
Device-4: Yamaha AG06/AG03 driver: snd-usb-audio type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-4.3.1:14 chip-ID: 0499:170d
Device-5: Corsair ST100 Headset Output
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-4.4.1:18 chip-ID: 1b1c:0a32
API: ALSA v: k6.4.12-200.fc38.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.78 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:06f0
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169
v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 6f:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8125
IF: enp111s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-14:20 chip-ID: 8087:0026
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2
lmp-v: 11
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 8.59 TiB used: 2.31 TiB (26.8%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Corsair model: Force MP510 size: 894.25 GiB
speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 40.9 C
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 38.9 C
ID-3: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
ID-4: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 QVO 4TB size: 3.64 TiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
ID-5: /dev/sdc vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM008-2FR102 size: 1.82 TiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
ID-6: /dev/sdd vendor: SanDisk model: SSD PLUS 480GB size: 447.14 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 929.93 GiB used: 36.66 GiB (3.9%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme1n1p3
ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 245.4 MiB (25.2%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 18.6 MiB (3.1%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme1n1p1
ID-4: /home size: 929.93 GiB used: 36.66 GiB (3.9%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme1n1p3
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C pch: 51.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Processes: 478 Uptime: 11m Memory: total: 64 GiB note: est.
available: 62.51 GiB used: 6.42 GiB (10.3%) Init: systemd v: 253
target: graphical (5) default: graphical Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 Packages:
pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 13 Shell: fish v: 3.6.1
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.29
dnf list installed \*nvidia\*
Installierte Pakete
akmod-nvidia.x86_64 3:535.98-1.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
kmod-nvidia-6.4.12-200.fc38.x86_64.x86_64 3:535.98-1.fc38 @@commandline
nvidia-persistenced.x86_64 3:535.98-1.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
nvidia-settings.x86_64 3:535.98-1.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 3:535.98-2.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda.x86_64 3:535.98-2.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.i686 3:535.98-2.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.x86_64 3:535.98-2.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc.x86_64 3:535.98-2.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 3:535.98-2.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 3:535.98-2.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power.x86_64 3:535.98-2.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
You seem to be missing one very critical package.
The nvidia-gpu-firmware package is missing from that list of installed packages.
I would run sudo dnf install nvidia-gpu-firmware followed by sudo dnf reinstall linux-firmware to ensure that all the firmware packages are up to date, then reboot.
This fix should solve the problem.
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It seems to work reliably now, thanks.