2009 called
It’s asking why things haven’t changed in 14 years
(things are somewhat better)
IT’S FIXED!
sudo apt install nvidia-driver
LOL isn’t that the truth. I wanted my desktop to not bother chugging watts through my 3090 and generating excess heat when barely KDE Plasma and a browser is running, but trying to set up GPU offload just left me with a blank terminal screen.
Thank God for the geniuses who implemented Snapper rollbacks in OpenSUSE! Otherwise, the Nvidia drivers in the repos work fine and I’m scared to touch them…
Is the power consumption really that much more? I guess there is a significant difference but it might still not cost much.
In a desktop you use the powerful GPU all the time.
In my use case the laptop is always attached to a charger.
Works fine for me? (opensuse tumbleweed)
Didn’t take much effort, hybrid mode got implemented automatically and then I just manually added a widget for quick switching between only integrated graphics, hybrid mode and only nvidia (basically never using that one, just either integrated or hybrid)
That’s nice! I’m glad it glad it worked so well for you. That’s the thing about configuration, sometimes it works without much effort!
I wish everyone shared your experience, but I guess it’s a YMMV kind of thing, right?
I’m generally very happy with opensuse tumbleweed, so far the best desktop distros I’ve tried. Very polished and user friendly.
pacman -S nvidia-dkmsHollywood, here I come!
Partial updates are not supported on Arch. You need to use
-Syu.Yeah, obviously, who wouldn’t know that
I thought dkms was recommended only for alternative kernels, and that nvidia or nvidia-open is what’s recommended generally.
Recommended, yes, but I’ve had issues with the pre-compiled modules before, so I switched to
nvidia-dkmsto make sure the binaries are always freshly baked.
I never understood this. Maybe because I stick with basic distros like Ubuntu or Mint. But I have not had this issue.
I had issues in like… 2010 or so. But not for about a decade
I haven’t had issues for about a decade. I haven’t had an nvidia card for about a decade either. I think the two may be connected.
I will say as someone who uses a NVIDIA card gaming through proton works flawlessly. Certain apps may have bugs. I’m having this one issue where H.265 videos don’t play properly in VLC or MPV.
I saw a meme about sound cards recently and thousands of likes on social media.
And I wonder if it’s people up voting because they remember that era, if it’s bots, or if it’s just people who kinda get the joke and don’t want to be left out?
most likely the last one. especially in computer science, there’s always a lot of people who sorta understand and just want to be included. that’s why most computer science memes are “JavaScript bad” or “python slow” or other super basic mass opinions. I feel like it’s super rare I see an actually original computer science meme
I used Ubuntu for many years on an nvidia machine and had a shit ton of nvidia problems, but I haven’t used Ubuntu for a long time now so I would hope there’s been progress. The experience has made me a lifelong AMD user since though.
Same, I’m on OpenSUSE, nVidia hosts its own OpenSUSE repo. As far back as 8 years(for me) you add the repo and add the driver. Everything works.
Saaame. There was a while there where Wayland didn’t work on the repo version so I had to go full manual, but otherwise it’s been almost perfect now, Wayland and all.
Fedora here and same. It’s just a few commands to get started and everything else works fine
I’ve never had trouble installing them. Getting them to work after an update is another story.
Lolz
Installing’s easy. Does it work? No 🫠 I still can’t daily drive linux because how shitty NVIDIA’s drivers are
Depends on what distro you used. What’s the distro, driver version and graphic card did you try?
NixOS (same problem, all distros) 570 drivers, RTX 3060
Currently on hyprland, same issue with sway/other wlroots compositors (KDE/GNOME work fine-ish, but i prefer compositors and they’re full of worse NVIDIA bugs on their own)
The problem’s with proton (or DXVK? Dunno) and how input delay increases heavily with V-Sync enabled. Unfortunately i have to use v-sync, so just dealing with it isn’t a choice for me, sorry
Did you enable all the hyprland NVIDIA tweaks im running a 3070 on nix hypr and had issues but after setting all the nvidia tweaks and env variables I’ve had no issue with vsync and playing games with bad input lag and I play competitive shooters so I can tell
If by tweaks you mean:
MODULES=(… nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm …)
options nvidia_drm modeset=1 fbdev=1
env = LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME,nvidia
env = __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME,nvidia
Then yeah :/ Could you possibly share the relevant parts of your config please? TIA
I’m at work currently but those and the nixos programs.hyprland.nvidiaPatches I use the hyprland flake rather then just the package I’ve had better luck
But this GitHub has a lot of the relevant stuff https://gist.github.com/sioodmy/1932583dd8a804e0b3fe86416b923a16
Thank you! I’ll take a skim over the gist and your dotfiles. This should be really helpful :)
complains about linux being complicated
uses NixOS
I think I found your issue… Most Linux distros just work nowadays.
I’m not complaining that linux is complicated, though. I can use NixOS just fine. I’m talking about NVIDIA drivers being broken, and i’ve tried multiple distros.
I use mint on two different machines with Nvidia GPUs. One is a several year old desktop with a 1080 and the other is a two year old Dell laptop with a discrete nvidia GPU in addition to the Intel one on the processor.
Now granted I don’t play a ton of games right now, and when I do they usually aren’t cutting edge, but I don’t recall many problems so far. I use NVENC for Jellyfin and editing videos more often, and that has been pretty smooth. The one issue I had was related to that though. Kdenlive (flatpak) updated and could no longer export videos because it was looking for a newer version of something my mint-supplied nvidia driver wasn’t yet updated to have.
Trying to install a newer driver manually was a whole damn thing though, so I rolled back the kdenlive flatpak to the one that worked.
It was a horror show a decade or two back when I first tried Linux. I feel like this meme is just too late or just old.
Yeah, I used a 1070 on arch for years without any issue, recently switched over to an Intel arc gpu and that gave me way more problems (admittedly most of it was my “fault” for being on an old mbr scheme, needing to enable rebar, and needing to switch from xorg to wayland… but that’s just what happens when a graphics card is so stable you don’t feel the need to reinstall your os or change anything major). I am not hired by Nvidia nor do I support their business practices when it comes to making development on Linux difficult or creating proprietary standards like cuda, just stating my personal experience with their drivers.
As a Linux noob I feel that lol… Currently on my Mint Laptop with an nvidia gpu (RTX 4060 Mobile version) and while most stuff worked out of the box, am running into several small annoyances:
- steam doesn’t launch (steamwebhelper doesn’t respond).
- Sleep mode just completely crashes the system once in a while.
- The GPU runs pretty warm, even if I don’t use anything / have the laptop closed.
- Tried to tinker around with the ‘nvidia-xconfig’ CLI in order to use a custom fan curve and it created a config file which completely stopped my desktop environment from even launching at startup… Somehow managed to recover the system through terminal shenanigans
To anyone thinking about switching to linux, do yourself a favor and do it on AMD hardware.
Honestly, I’ve never had this problem. Two GPUs, two clicks in the gui driver manager.
Can I ask for help here?
I’ve got 3 displays, right…a 1080p75 and a 4k60/444 on my Nvidia GeForce 1660, and a 1080p60 on my onboard graphics (AMD).
Works reasonably under X11, but can’t get 4k60 (only 30) in Wayland. And not really sure I’ve got 4:4:4, either. Seems prime-select keeps forgetting my setting in Wayland, too.
I’m using tumbleweed with plasma as my desktop.
Not the right place to ask. Try the official forums of your distro, or one of the many Linux communities on Lemmy.
4k60/444
Is that HDR? I can tell you right now that HDR is still experimental on all Wayland compositors (Plasma seems to be the farthest along, but still not reliable), and will never be implemented in X11.
Not quite HDR, similar but different.
4:4:4 refers to chroma subsampling. Essentially how much bandwidth is available for chroma and luma. 4:4:4 allows for an 4x2 array of pixels to each be unique colors, which isn’t possible with 4:2:2 or 4:2:0.
It’s a feature you really want when using a 4k TV for a monitor (as I am) because without it, text can be very fuzzy and difficult to read. Especially certain color combinations (i.e. red-on-black, as Konsole will do when there’s an error).
I think it’s because of the mismatched refresh rates. I think NVIDIA is working on a fix. But that may be outdated info i’m remembering. NVIDIA has said they are committed to fixing the remaining issues with Wayland support.
Run this command:
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /Probably shouldn’t be asking for tech support in the Linux meme community.
How about you
sudo apt-get better jokes?yay -S never
Don’t do this.
laughs in Pop!_OS
I have a better one. Installing ATI drivers mid 2000s.
Adjusting for overscan in the 2000s…
This is actually an easy thing to do – usually. But you might get unlucky with the wrong hardware, as perhaps OP did.
i just upgraded to an AMD card yesterday because of the Nvidia driver nightmare lol
Yeah same here a few weeks ago. Glad I did though.
