Testing request: Fedora 40 on NVIDIA RTX 3000 series GPUs
Testing request: Fedora 40 on NVIDIA RTX 3000 series GPUs
Hi folks! We have a proposed blocker - 2274490 – nVidia RTX 3000 GPUs are inoperable in Fedora 40 (nouveau) - for Fedora 40 on nVidia RTX 3000 series GPUs , it would be great to get some more testing to confirm whether it affects all such GPUs. The bug should be quite simple - it prevents the system...
Unlucky, sold my RTX 3080 for a Radeon 7800 XT because of superior Linux support. Would've loved to have helped.
I've been thinking of going amd for a while now for when i switch to Linux. Hows the 7800 perform? I was looking at a 7600xt cause thats what in my price range.
It performs as expected, that is to say similar to an RTX 3080, so it wasn't really an upgrade performance-wise (RT performance is probably even a bit worse), but Nvidia drivers caused tons of issues combined with Wayland and certain games when I tried it, so the switch was definitely worth it for me. It's quite a bit more efficient though in terms of power draw and the model I got (PowerColor Hellhound) has a great cooler that that's very quiet even under high load.
It's pretty good with somewhat recent kernels, although I started experiencing an odd issue starting with kernel 6.7 (at least combined with KDE Plasma and VRR) that I reported here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/3268. Apart from that I'm very satisfied. I'd imagine a 7600 XT would work just as well.
Reach out to the folks on the ASUS Linux discord, the vast majority of the zephyrus and rog laptops use Nvidia gpus and I'm sure someone (or maybe multiple someones) would be willing to give beta feedback. Fedora is a fairly popular distro there.
I have an ASUS ROG laptop running Fedora 39 right now. The reason Fedora is popular with these laptops is that the controller that switches between the two graphics cards is native to Fedora. It's explicitly recommended on the site.
EDIT: It looks like there are more distros that work on ROG laptops since I did it. Pretty cool!
Yeah, Arch (and derivatives) and Fedora are well supported. I did a lot of the kernel platform support and regression testing for the project & the AMD kernel folks while we were getting support ironed out for the 5000 and 6000 series models.
Fedora has good support because that's what Luke uses for his daily driver machines and Dragonn & others put together the Arch packaging. Those two distros (plus Endeavor and other Arch derivatives) are widely used.
i have tried fedora 37, 38 and 39 on my rig with 3060ti and couldn't even run the live os. doubt 40 would work either. nobara works but it's too buggy for a daily driver and people keep unrecommending it anyway.
My damn overpriced copper missed EVGA 3090 is why I'm trapped in windows. I can't wait to ditch it.
Wish I could help. Unfortunately the newest cards I have is a laptop 2080, and a desktop 1080ti. Once I can upgrade (likely never at this point) I will be moving to team red.
I can test it tomorrow in an earlier RC Release booting didn´t work. I could boot with blacklistet nouveau. (Hybrid Graphics INtel/Nvidia - MSI Notebook)