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Djangata

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Registered: 2017-04-08

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[Solved]Nvidia Drivers not working

Hi everybody, after a reinstall on my system i've been having problems with getting my nvidia card to work properly

i am running a gtx 970, had installed the packages mentioned in the installation guide and ran nvidia-xconfig but seems that doesn't change anything

I noticed the problem when i tried to work on a 3d scene in blender and had a terrible viewport performance, although Cycles(renger engine) detects and uses correctly the GPU

i'm not sure how to troubleshoot this

[jordan@Workstation NetworkManager]$ sudo glxinfo | grep NVIDIA
[sudo] password for root:
No protocol specified
Error: unable to open display :0

this is what glxinfo returns. i had to use sudo because it wouldn't give me feedback

thanks in advance

Last edited by Djangata (2017-11-03 18:33:17)

seth

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Re: [Solved]Nvidia Drivers not working

You should certainly not run glxinfo as root.
Please provide a complete glxinfo, dmesg and your Xorg log. Running nvidia-xconfig is no good idea at all, please remove the resulting /etc/X11/xorg.conf for the moment.

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Djangata

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Registered: 2017-04-08

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Re: [Solved]Nvidia Drivers not working

ok, i figured out what the problem was, after rereading the Nvidia wiki for god knows which time

"Warning: Enabling KMS causes GDM and GNOME to default to Wayland, which currently suffers from very poor performance: FS#53284. A workaround is to use the GNOME on Xorg session instead."

that was the problem, and the solution, i guess i can mark this as solved ?

could you explain to me what should i do instead of running nvidia-xconfig ?

Last edited by Djangata (2017-11-02 23:02:48)

seth

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Re: [Solved]Nvidia Drivers not working

Nothing, it's usually not required.
If you want to apply detailed configuration, this should be done by configlets in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

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headkase

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Re: [Solved]Nvidia Drivers not working

that was the problem, and the solution, i guess i can mark this as solved ?

Yes, please mark your thread as solved.  Edit your first post in this thread and in the title field pre-pend "[Solved]" without the quotes.