Hey everybody, new to Fedora here, i moved from windows for like 2 weeks now, and i noticed since a week ago, my System sometimes randomly display freeze, and i notice it happens whenever i’m opening firefox in the background OR i alt+tab, it can’t be predicted on when will it happen but i think those 2 are some variables that is present when it happened, my device has an NVIDIA GPU (4060 ti) and i’m using kde plasma and my kernel is Linux 6.14.6-300.fc42.x86_64, i’ve tried some solutions from the fedora discussion:
reinstall nvidia drivers
change powermode to balanced
someone mentioned that is a crucial bug that happens on GNOME + Wayland(my previous DE) So he changed to kde plasma and he said the random freezing is gone.
and i’m confused on how to get it fixed, because i always need to hard reboot, and a quick note, that when it freezes, i can still hear discord calls and also can talk to the discord call, and my caps lock light works, if that helps, any help would be appreciated
Did you install firefox from a .rpm package or one of the 2 flatpaks? Which Nvidia driver are you using? If you aren’t using nouveau you should try switching back (see the RPMFusion Nvidia HowTo for a way to switch back and forth between nouveau and the RPMFusion Nvidia driver).
I installed Firefox from the RPM package, not from the two Flatpak versions.
As for the driver, I’m using Nvidia’s proprietary driver version 570.144.
When you mentioned switching back to Nouveau, do you mean I should switch to Nouveau first, and then switch back to the proprietary driver afterward?
EDIT:
and no my monitor is not on the G-SYNC list u provided..
If the display freezes don’t occur with nouveau then you know there is some clash between the monitor and the Nvidia driver. If your monitor is not on the list, Nvidia may not consider it a bug, so you will have to decide whether to stay with nouveau or upgrade your monitor.