Hey, it’s more nVidia troubles!
So one day, randomly, some stuttering started to occur, mostly on YouTube, but the GNOME shell started to lag after longer usage. It got annoying and I wanted to re–install the GPU driver (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050). Some errors and problems later, I wiped the drivers to install them completely anew following guides from RPMFusion and Fedora Project. This endeavour though…made things worse…
Not only did the issues not disappear, now Steam cannot load the NVIDIA driver at all! This is what Steam system information panel shows:
Operating System Version:
"Fedora release 37 (Thirty Seven)" (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 6.1.18-200.fc37.x86_64
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 12014000
X Window Manager: GNOME Shell
Video Card:
Driver: Mesa/X.org llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7, 256 bits)
Driver Version: 4.5 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.3.7
OpenGL Version: 4.5
Monitor Refresh Rate: 143 Hz
Revision Not Detected
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary VRAM Not Detected
Games that ran before just fine are barely playable. They all start, sure, but even TES5: Oblivion from 2006 (fresh install) runs at 1~2 FPS! Newer games run better, but it’s still quite unplayable. YouTube videos still stutter even on a clean browser with no extensions, so I just started watching videos using Haruna Player.
I then tried installing the drivers again to no avail, then again using nvautoinstall
, but nothing made a difference. Everything in this tool ran successfully, and I don’t really know what to look for even.
I am quite desperate to be honest, so I’ll be glad for any help or info. I’d prefer not trying to game on Linux, but my PC (Intel Core i7-6700, Z270X-Ultra Gaming-CF) started having trouble running Windows 10, which I have on dual boot just for games, but it hardly holds its own UI.
inxi
output:
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: nvidia v: 530.30.02 arch: Pascal pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1c81
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.8
compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa alternate: nv gpu: nvidia
display-ID: :1 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96
Monitor-1: HDMI-0 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 70 diag: 801mm (31.54")
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 530.30.02 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX
1050/PCIe/SSE2 direct-render: Yes
nvidia-smi
works: (and so does nvidia-settings
)
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 530.30.02 Driver Version: 530.30.02 CUDA Version: 12.1 |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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 GTX 1050 Off| 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 35% 40C P0 N/A / 75W| 459MiB / 2048MiB | 2% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
glxinfo | grep OpenGL
:
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 530.30.02
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIA
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 530.30.02
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIA
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 NVIDIA 530.30.02
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20
and yes, I made sude Secure Boot is off.