Cant get Nvidia-settings to work

General system Newbie
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Hi,

I have been trying to get my 3080 Desktop GPU to work - no iGPU in the system.

Installed with nvidia-inst

❯ nvidia-smi
Fri Jan 20 16:40:48 2023       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 525.78.01    Driver Version: 525.78.01    CUDA Version: 12.0     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce ...  Off  | 00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|  0%   24C    P8    27W / 320W |    626MiB / 10240MiB |     43%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A       780      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                      20MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A       851      G   /usr/bin/kwalletd5                  3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A       872      G   /usr/bin/kwin_wayland             225MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A       901      G   /usr/bin/Xwayland                   4MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A       923      G   /usr/bin/ksmserver                  3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A       925      G   /usr/bin/kded5                      3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A       950      G   /usr/bin/plasmashell              124MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A       997      G   ...de-authentication-agent-1        3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1115      G   /usr/bin/nextcloud                  3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1117      G   /usr/bin/python                     3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1121      G   /usr/lib/kdeconnectd                3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1123      G   /usr/bin/latte-dock                18MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1124      G   /usr/bin/telegram-desktop           3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1133      G   /usr/bin/kaccess                    3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1917      G   /usr/lib/baloorunner                3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      2012      G   /usr/bin/konsole                    3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      2298      G   ...developer-edition/firefox      186MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Its a new EndeavourOS Installation with default settings except btrfs.

My Nvidia Settings always look like this:

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Another Problem I have is Firefox glitching / blinking sometimes (whole Firefox Window :frowning: )
But I guess that could be driver related?

Thanks for any help

2

Can you show all the hardware. Post the link from the command.

inxi -Faz | eos-sendlog

Edit: Also are you using systemd-boot or grub?

3

Log File

I’m using default systemd-boot

4

Looks like the nvidia driver is loaded properly since you have an older Intel so you don’t need the ibt=off
kernel parameter.

Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA102 [GeForce RTX 3080] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: nvidia v: 525.78.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 525.xx+
    status: current (as of 2022-12) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx
    process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s ports: active: none off: DP-2
    empty: DP-1,DP-3,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2206
    class-ID: 0300

What is wrong exactly with the nvidia settings?

5

Which part of Nvidia settings is not working? For X Server settings switch to Xorg.

Display: wayland
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Yes the OP is using Wayland. Does Wayland even work yet with Nvidia?

Edit: May need to set this if using Wayland with Nvidia.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland#Requirements

Edit2: The Arch wiki recommends installing egl-wayland but yet the above wiki say’s using GBM as a back end is better and at least with Mutter and KWIN. :thinking:

I really don’t know what is best or if Wayland works well enough on Nvidia. I assume those with Nvidia cards are looking more for gaming. Gaming on Wayland i don’t have any answer how it works.

Otherwise switch to xorg.

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aww man :frowning:
switched to X11 and have all the options in nvidia-settings

Thanks for the quick help <3

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8

You are welcome, why did you choose Wayland in the first place?

9

You should mark post #5 as the solution. :wink:

Edit: If you are unable to change it i could do it for you?

Edit3: Post was edited by moderator to provide proper solution.

10

I’ve read somewhere that wayland would be better for multi monitor and VRR

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