First, I am a noob to Fedora 36 and Gnome (only used Windows or Linux Mint Cinnamon / MATE before).
Is it ok to use Wayland when using Nvidia proprietary drivers on Fedora 36 running Gnome? Or are we “supposed” to use X org? I have an RTX 2060 Super.
In particular I want to ensure I won’t have problems running DaVinci Resolve 17.
I could have sworn I read “somewhere” that one should use X org instead of Wayland after installing Nvidia proprietary drivers.
Running under wayland, I see that DaVinci Resolve “sees” my graphic card (it shows CUDA as the process and it lists my RTX 2060 under the selection by default).
I do notice a few artifacts when using various browsers though. Sometimes if I look at a page for a few seconds, and then scroll, I will get some weird momentary blinking in the upper and lower corners. Or sometimes when I start an app the boot screen for the app might blink a few times. I didn’t notice this when running an X org session, only when running a Wayland session.
The other thing is when I run:
nvidia-settings
in Wayland, the control panel for Nvidia Settings only shows a few parameters of my graphics card. If I open it in an X.org session it shows more (maybe all) parameters of my graphics card.
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.;cccccccccccccccccccccc;. OS: Fedora Linux 36 (Workstation Edition) x86_64
.:cccccccccccccccccccccccccc:. Host: 90FB000CUS ideacentre 710-25ISH
.;ccccccccccccc;.:dddl:.;ccccccc;. Kernel: 5.18.9-200.fc36.x86_64
.:ccccccccccccc;OWMKOOXMWd;ccccccc:. Uptime: 52 mins
.:ccccccccccccc;KMMc;cc;xMMc:ccccccc:. Packages: 2188 (rpm), 14 (flatpak)
,cccccccccccccc;MMM.;cc;;WW::cccccccc, Shell: bash 5.1.16
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:ccccccc;oxOOOo;MMM0OOk.;cccccccccccc: DE: GNOME 42.2
cccccc:0MMKxdd:;MMMkddc.;cccccccccccc; WM: Mutter
ccccc:XM0';cccc;MMM.;cccccccccccccccc' WM Theme: Adwaita
ccccc;MMo;ccccc;MMW.;ccccccccccccccc; Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
ccccc;0MNc.ccc.xMMd:ccccccccccccccc; Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
cccccc;dNMWXXXWM0::cccccccccccccc:, Terminal: gnome-terminal
cccccccc;.:odl:.;cccccccccccccc:,. CPU: Intel i7-6700 (8) @ 4.000GHz
:cccccccccccccccccccccccccccc:'. GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
.:cccccccccccccccccccccc:;,.. Memory: 5038MiB / 23888MiB
nvidia-smi
Thu Jul 7 08:44:16 2022
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 515.57 Driver Version: 515.57 CUDA Version: 11.7 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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 ... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| 30% 36C P8 9W / 175W | 1420MiB / 8192MiB | 1% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 1903 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 176MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2883 C+G /opt/resolve/bin/resolve 1050MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2895 G /usr/bin/Xwayland 59MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 7179 G /usr/bin/gnome-text-editor 46MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
dnf list installed *nvidia*
Installed Packages
akmod-nvidia.x86_64 3:515.57-1.fc36 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
kmod-nvidia-5.18.9-200.fc36.x86_64.x86_64 3:515.57-1.fc36 @@commandline
nvidia-persistenced.x86_64 3:515.57-1.fc36 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
nvidia-settings.x86_64 3:515.57-1.fc36 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 3:515.57-1.fc36 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda.x86_64 3:515.57-1.fc36 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.x86_64 3:515.57-1.fc36 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc.x86_64 3:515.57-1.fc36 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 3:515.57-1.fc36 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power.x86_64 3:515.57-1.fc36 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates