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Is it so hard to get Nvidia GPUs working with Linux?
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My Rtx3060 works perfectly, one small error with waking from sleep, which was easily resolved, performance is better than windows, had no trouble getting games running
I'm new to Linux and have the same card. Running Ubuntu Studio the new 580 driver freezes my application menu. What driver are you using? I tried 570 and it worked for everything except it wouldn't show video on Davinci Resolve so no go for me. I went back to 550 which works for everything except my taskbar freezes multiple times per day and I have to restart plasma each time.
I'm running the 570 open kernel I don't use DaVinci resolve so couldn't tell you if it was working for me or not
Have you had a look at journalctl to see what's actually failing when your taskbar freezes?
I have not, didn't know that was an option haha. I'll look into how to use it. I'm guessing it's a log of some kind?
It'll basically the systemd logging system, it can print out all the system messages, you can get it to output a given time period or a particular service, handy for seeing what's going on from multiple services at once, something that might look like graphics issue might actually be something completely different causing a problem, should give you a few more threads to pull to hopefully resolve the issue.
Awesome, thanks. Just tested so I could get an idea. I'll run it again when the next freeze occurs. Thanks
I have issues with Ubuntu based distros and my Nvidia card, Arch based seems to work great though. Don't ask me why lol, I'm just getting back into Linux and still learning but that was my experience.