F33 Frequently Crashes with Multiple Monitors

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#1

After a fresh Fedora 33 installation, my computer frequently freezes when I am using three monitors. When the freezing happens, I have to force it to shut down and only use one monitor for it to reboot. If I use three monitors, the reboot will also freeze.

I don’t have this problem when using Fedora 32 or just one monitor with Fedora 33. I guess that the NVIDIA driver shipped with F33 may work well with multiple monitors.

I am using GeForce GTX 1660 and the most recent NVIDIA driver (455.45.01).

#2

nvidia installed from nvidia or from rpmfusion or ?

#3 
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
#4

That gives the command but not the source

#5

I just run these commands following the instructions of Fedora documents. I have no idea what you mean.

#6

Fedora does not include an nvidia driver with any of its releases, and upgrading to F33 will be no different. Nvidia drivers have to be installed from a 3rd party source.

Please post the output of

sudo dnf repolist

so we can see which repo your nvidia drivers were loaded from.

#7

My repo list is as below:

repo id                         repo name
fedora                          Fedora 33 - x86_64
fedora-cisco-openh264           Fedora 33 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64
fedora-modular                  Fedora Modular 33 - x86_64
google-chrome                   google-chrome
rpmfusion-free                  RPM Fusion for Fedora 33 - Free
rpmfusion-free-updates          RPM Fusion for Fedora 33 - Free - Updates
rpmfusion-nonfree               RPM Fusion for Fedora 33 - Nonfree
rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver RPM Fusion for Fedora 33 - Nonfree - NVIDIA Driver
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates       RPM Fusion for Fedora 33 - Nonfree - Updates
updates                         Fedora 33 - x86_64 - Updates
updates-modular                 Fedora Modular 33 - x86_64 - Updates
#8

That looks good, now can we see the output of

dnf list installed '*nvidia*'
#9

I got:

Installed Packages
akmod-nvidia.x86_64                       3:455.45.01-1.fc33 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
kmod-nvidia-5.9.10-200.fc33.x86_64.x86_64 3:455.45.01-1.fc33 @@commandline      
kmod-nvidia-5.9.11-200.fc33.x86_64.x86_64 3:455.45.01-1.fc33 @@commandline      
kmod-nvidia-5.9.9-200.fc33.x86_64.x86_64  3:455.45.01-1.fc33 @@commandline      
nvidia-persistenced.x86_64                3:455.45.01-1.fc33 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
nvidia-settings.x86_64                    3:455.45.01-1.fc33 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64                3:455.45.01-1.fc33 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda.x86_64           3:455.45.01-1.fc33 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.x86_64      3:455.45.01-1.fc33 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc.x86_64        3:455.45.01-1.fc33 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64           3:455.45.01-1.fc33 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
#10

That list is missing the following packages that may be related to your issue.

nvidia-modprobe.x86_64                                           3:455.45.01-1.fc33                        @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
nvidia-xconfig.x86_64                                            3:455.45.01-1.fc33                        @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-devel.x86_64                                 3:455.45.01-1.fc33                        @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates

I suggest you install those packages, remove the kmod-nvidia package for your latest kernel “kmod-nvidia-5.9.11*” then reboot so the kmod package gets rebuilt.
If this does not help your issue then I am afraid I am out of ideas.

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#11

I followed the instructions on https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA and run:

sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda

why did my computer lack the packages you listed?