I installed Fedora 41 on Dell XPS 17 9700. I have secure boot enabled. So, I completed the process of enrolling the MOK.
The NVIDIA driver is showing up in most instances but its usage is always 0%. Moreover, there is no hardware acceleration and H.264 videos lag. Below is output of nvidia-smi
Below is the output of
I appreciate any helpl. I can provide other outputs too.
CPU-X
sudo dnf install cpu-x
Is a program I like to use to monitor CPU/GPU.
Also Nvtop is nice
sudo dnf install nvtop
You may have to enable hardware acceleration
Here’s an example running glmark2:
But I do use nvtop and cpu-x as well, in addition to making sure hardware acceleration is fully functional.
Thanks Allen. Hardware acceleration now works with MPV player but still not with VLC or SMPlayer. But it works for me anyways.
Thanks MatH. HA works with MPV player now.
but still not with VLC
check your ffmpeg / vlc / vainfo setups. I am using libva-nvidia-driver.
# here i started VLC
# then made sure the input/codec prefs are right
# then picked a video file to playback
$ vlc
VLC media player 3.0.21 Vetinari (revision 3.0.21-0-gdd8bfdbabe8)
[0000562b17b79520] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Gtk-Message: 00:22:46.987: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
[0000562b17c13e90] main playlist: playlist is empty
libva info: VA-API version 1.21.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri-nonfree/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri-freeworld/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_0
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
[00007f4a10001f80] glconv_vaapi_x11 gl error: vaDeriveImage: operation failed
[00007f4a0c0592e0] main video output error: video output creation failed
[00007f4a24c0e910] main decoder error: failed to create video output
[00007f4a24c0e910] avcodec decoder: Using NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library 570.124.04 Tue Feb 25 03:37:44 UTC 2025 for hardware decoding
Your very first post with nvidia-smi shows the GPU with 7% usage and several apps using it.
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This is my nvidia-smi with glmark2 running
# nvidia-smi
Sun Mar 16 17:17:12 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 570.124.04 Driver Version: 570.124.04 CUDA Version: 12.8 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Off | 00000000:06:00.0 On | N/A |
| 30% 60C P2 81W / 130W | 2861MiB / 8192MiB | 100% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 2876 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 276MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2979 G ...c/gnome-remote-desktop-daemon 1MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3001 G /usr/bin/Xwayland 4MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3102 C+G /usr/bin/ptyxis 20MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 115578 G ...ersion=20250313-050105.095000 175MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 271507 G ...share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 271881 G ./steamwebhelper 34MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 271917 G .../share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt 64MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 619059 C ...86_64-pc-linux-gnu__GW-cuda-3 2086MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 620509 G glmark2 20MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+