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    A broken man (lemmy.world)
    submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I had a hard time getting drivers for an RTX 4070 setup on Fedora a couple months ago. Not that I'm everyone, but I'm relatively competent so I could see how it would be an experience many people have shared.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

    I have that same card and just today tried installing the drivers for a fresh install of fedora atomic 40 (KDE). It went worse than I expected.

    (before I rant, note that I have a 21:9 monitor which maybe adds extra weirdness/uncommonness.)

    • installer was a black screen. No signal to monitor at all. Had to use “basic video mode” from GRUB.
    • after install, I updated the system. A reboot caused the resolution to drop extremely low with wrong aspect ratio and refresh rate. Almost unusable for navigating system menus. None of that could not be changed. It wasn’t an issue before the update.
    • you have to do a weird workaround to get rpm fusion repos on atomic. Fair enough and fedora docs got you covered. Doing this involves rebooting twice. That’s when I learned that every other reboot consistently would boot into a black screen. So 4-5 reboots later (and a few more to test my theory), I have the repo with nvidia drivers.
    • installed the driver only to realize that it will break the install if secure boot is enabled (atomic only issue, I think). System crashed and couldn’t be booted anymore. Results in a freeze that needs a hard reboot. Back to my old OS for now because I’m exhausted.

    I can’t believe GPU drivers can break secure boot in 2024. I’m sure there is a logical reason behind it, but I’m shocked that installing anything at all on top of an OS that already supports secure boot would break it. Maybe I’ll try Bazzite because I’m lazy and heard good things. At a glance it appears to be fedora atomic with nvidia drivers installed (amongst many other gaming related things I probably would install anyway eventually).

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I set up my 4070 TS (the brand new one) on Ubuntu 22.04 about two months ago and my god was it a pain in the ass. Took like two days to do and even after that it would still hit a screen freeze issue every thirty minutes that took another week to find a half-assed solution for…

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

    I installed a new system wih a 4070 TI Super as well, but with openSuse. It installed the drivers right away during installations,, no issues, gaming flawless and fluid (no HDR I'm steam tho). Interesting that the experiences are so different

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I installed a new system wih a 4070 TI Super as well, but with openSuse. It installed the drivers right away during installations,, no issues, gaming flawless and fluid (no HDR I'm steam tho). Interesting that the experiences are so different

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

    Huh, that’s certainly interesting! The hacky solution ended up having to do with power states which is kinda annoying - I have to set the GPU to use max power state because if it goes into the min state and then I walk away for 5-10 mins, it drops out of the PCIe slot and I need to reboot. SSH still works but you can’t reattach it w/o a reboot. I’m running a PCIe gen 5 mobo though and I heard about some potential problems with that, so maybe that was related. Could also be the fact that I ran a Quadro RTX 4000 on the same system/OS for a year or so and didn’t want to do a full reinstall, so it probably had somewhat to do with leftover drivers and crap

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

    I installed a new system wih a 4070 TI Super as well, but with openSuse. It installed the drivers right away during installations,, no issues, gaming flawless and fluid (no HDR I'm steam tho). Interesting that the experiences are so different