Few days ago I did the weekly system update which included latest NVIDIA drivers. Everything went smoothly, no error messages, systems works as usual. Today I wanted to play some game and I noticed that the performance was horrible. This is what I found

lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] (rev 0c)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0aff
        Kernel driver in use: i915
--
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0aff
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia

 
xrandr --listproviders            
Providers: number : 0

I’ve tried to reinstall drivers, and ran some fixes I found online but still no luck. Any ideas how to fix it?

update

Just remembered. After last drivers update I wasn’t able to run any Steam game. I always got some directx error. Before I had no issues.

update 2

I’m on Fedora 40, currently I’m using drivers downloaded directly from NVIDIA website. Before that I was using whatever drivers from these repositories

dnf repolist
repo id                                                                repo name
fedora                                                                 Fedora 40 - x86_64
fedora-cisco-openh264                                                  Fedora 40 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64
nvidia-container-toolkit                                               nvidia-container-toolkit
protonvpn-fedora-stable                                                ProtonVPN Fedora Stable repository
rpmfusion-free                                                         RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Free
rpmfusion-free-updates                                                 RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Free - Updates
rpmfusion-nonfree                                                      RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Nonfree
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                                              RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Nonfree - Updates
updates

The only thing I remember related to messing with drivers was playing with podman containers accessing my gpu (nvidia-container-toolkit).

Currently I’m using driver version 550.107.02

  • WILSOOON@programming.dev
    2·
    15 days ago

    I would reinstall the rpm fusion ones and remove the ones from the official site, also check if maybe there is a flatpak update for steam if you have it. Also blacklist your nouveau driver in the grep config file, it could be that its using that.

    If you want to check if its working use glx-gears with the info flag and set the opengl to the nvidia card. It could be that it doesnt work, its been a long time since my driver broke.