If I had a dollar for every time the Nvidia driver screwed me over I still couldn’t order anything with it because my graphics driver wouldn’t load.
If I had a dollar for every time the Nvidia driver screwed me over I still couldn’t order anything with it because my graphics driver wouldn’t load.
RTX 3080 owner here. I get a black screen whenever I try to play a game after the desktop goes to sleep in Linux Mint. The only workaround is to restart the PC and play it before its screensaver comes on. The struggle is real.
Hey! I had the same issue on my RTX3070! What you need is to install the latest Nvidia driver. Those are not available by default and requires you to add the Ubuntu PPA, then you are able to switch with the driver manager gui
Doesn’t Mint offer those during the installation?
I don’t think so? It comes preinstalled with nouveau, but also offer some proprietary drivers. But the latest need the Ubuntu ppa
lol lucky you that you can resume from sleep
Aye, nvidia makes it so something doesn’t initialize when my computer wakes up… and something that I can’t find is turning on sleep mode in a way that I can’t figure out.
Sometimes Linux does get a groan or two out of me.
Have you considered giving your linux install a little caffeine?
https://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/caffeine
Try a distro with a recent kernel and install newest proprietary nvidia drivers
Like fedora, openSuse TW, bazzite or endeavourOS
On newer cards, the open source drivers work pretty well as of version 555. The process for installing them is usually very similar to the proprietary drivers, but there’s often some flag you need to set to tell it to use the open source ones instead. For Fedora, the instructions are here: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA#Kernel_Open (ignore the part about it only working for data center GPUs, as that’s no longer true)
sudo sh -c 'echo "%_with_kmod_nvidia_open 1" > /etc/rpm/macros.nvidia-kmod' sudo akmods --kernels $(uname -r) --rebuildIf you use Nvidia’s installer, it automatically uses the open source driver instead of the proprietary one if you have a new enough GPU (20 series or newer)
I might recommend PopOs. It is also based on Ubuntu, is easy to use for beginners & tailored specifically for use with Nvidia. I’ve had great luck w/ my laptop that has Optimus.
Test it with a USB first. The link I provided is an alpha version of their latest release but you can also try the older, more stable version here.