Severe problems after attempts to install xorg nvidia drivers

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To put it simply, the nouveau drivers for my 3060 ti dont work, it registers that its there, so i tried to install the rpm fusion drivers

Upon doing so, only 2 of my 3 monitors worked(the ones hooked to the gpu) and ran extremely poorly at very low resolution with major cutoff to the point i couldnt see the task manager bar and it was destroying my cpu(i9 13th gen) for whatever reason

Just flat out removed the xorg drivers and its all back to normal, nouveau seems to work fine for my IGPU anyway, but how do i use the nvidia drivers without it wreaking that much havok?

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You mention xorg drivers are you using X11?
Can you use wayland and see if that works for you?

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running wayland currently, and running wayland on those drivers eats my cpu alive(50-75% usage doing nothing), ive seen x11 mentioned but dont know where to check as its not in the graphics portion of information center

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Can you try the Negativo17 repository for NVIDIA drivers instead? It has a slightly different configuration and may work better with KDE Plasma Wayland.

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Maybe try the driver in testing

sudo dnf update --enable-repo=r*g *\nvidia\*
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Posting hardware details may get advice from users with similar hardware and issues. Posting the output from running inxi -Fzxx (as pre-formatted text, using the </> button from the top line of the text entry panel) should allow others with similar hardware/issues to find this topic and will help us understand your configuration.

Not sure what this means. Nouveau is for Nvidia – iGPU is usually Intel or AMD. The inxi output will tell us what driver is used by the iGPU.

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If you’re not fussed for using the open source driver, I’ve always had success installing the drivers manually (I’ve got the 3080 ti). The following link is an excellent resource: https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2015/fedora-nvidia-guide/

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  12Desktop KDE Plasma 12v 6.3.5 12tk Qt 12v N/A 12wm kwin_wayland 12dm SDDM 12Distro Fedora Linux 42 (KDE
    Plasma Desktop Edition)
12Machine:
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    12serial <superuser required> 12UEFI American Megatrends LLC. 12v A.91 12date 05/09/2025
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    12arch Xe 12ports 12active HDMI-A-1 12empty DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-2, HDMI-A-3, HDMI-A-4 12bus-ID 00:02.0
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  12Device-2 NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Lite Hash Rate] 12vendor Dell 12driver nouveau 12v kernel
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    12lanes 1 12bus-ID 1-1.3:8 12chip-ID 046d:082c
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thought i was being specific enough before, my bad

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whats the actual install command? using the provided on gives me this
Unknown argument "--add-repo=https://negativo17.org/repos/fedora-nvidia.repo" for command "config-manager". Add "--help" for more information about the arguments.

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That’s the old DNF 4 syntax, at the moment for EL8/9/10. For Fedora 41+ with DNF 5 is:

dnf config-manager addrepo --from-repofile=https://negativo17.org/repos/fedora-nvidia.repo

Will update the relevant pages.

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It could be useful to compare the graphics sections between nouveau and Nvidia drivers. For just graphics, you can use inxi -Gzxx. You can use journalctl in a terminal to look for error messages using the -p <N> option and messages realted to Nvidia using -g nvidia. You can also compare messages between a boot that used nouveau with boots using Nvidia drivers.

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im not going to question why this works over the others but it simply did, many MANY thanks