I bought a used notebook which came with an Nvidia GPU and I haven't managed to get it to work with Fedora.
Computer: Dell XPS 15 9580. UltraHD screen. Nvidia GFX 1050 mobile GPU. 1) Fedora 30 installation medium hung. 2) tried Fedora 31 beta. Hung the same way. 3) it seems that nouveau is to blame. Solution: add kernel parameter nouveau.kms=0. 4) installed Fedora 31 beta. (I've kept it updated, so it is now Fedora 31 non-beta) Problems: a) I don't get the advantage of the fast GPU (and the chance of using it for GPU computing). This isn't an urgent concern. b) the GPU is apparently powered up and generating heat. This runs down my battery and causes the fan to run. Solution?: i) Install proprietary nvidia driver. I used the negativo17 repositories. ii) Install BumbleBee to allow switching between the Intel IGPU and the Nvidia GPU. (I don't think that I've actually used BumbleBee yet.) Problem: System hangs on boot when the kernel has nvidia modules (which I've only done for some kernels, thank goodness). If I disable Wayland (in /etc/gdm/custom.conf set WaylandEnable to false), I can boot a kernel with nvidia modules. GDM (the loging screen) works. It is known that the Nvidia proprietary drives don't work with Wayland. If the kernel has nvidia modules, once I log in through GDM, the machine locks up hard. In particular, I've done this while an SSH session is also logged in from another machine. That session is frozen too. I *think* that the /etc/gdm/custom.conf setting should also prevent Wayland from being used during the session post-GDM but I don't really have a way of checking. ==> Is wayland disabled for the session or do I need other magic? The latest system log entries are lost since the machine freezes without flushing various filesystem caches. Any suggestions? _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
