Screen tearing and gdm freeze to logout
On a daily basis I have been getting screen tearing or gnome freezing and restarting back to the login prompt. My knowledge on troubleshooting such an issue is limited. I have been using Fedora for about 6 weeks now on my home and office PC’s. Office PC has been rock solid. I am only having problems on this PC at home. I am only assuming it has to do the with the NVIDIA video card, but am unsure. Any help you are willing to give I would be very grateful. It has been a frustrating experience. Please let me know what other information I can provide that would be useful in getting this resolved once and for all. Thank you!!
Fedora Workstation 37
Video card that I am using: NVIDIA Corporation TU117 [GeForce GTX 1650] (rev a1)
PC Model: Dell XPS 8930
dnf repolist
repo id repo name
fedora Fedora 37 - x86_64
fedora-cisco-openh264 Fedora 37 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64
fedora-modular Fedora Modular 37 - x86_64
phracek-PyCharm Copr repo for PyCharm owned by phracek
protonvpn-fedora-stable ProtonVPN Fedora Stable repository
rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 37 - Free
rpmfusion-free-tainted RPM Fusion for Fedora 37 - Free tainted
rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 37 - Free - Updates
rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 37 - Nonfree
rpmfusion-nonfree-NVIDIA-driver RPM Fusion for Fedora 37 - Nonfree - NVIDIA Driver
rpmfusion-nonfree-steam RPM Fusion for Fedora 37 - Nonfree - Steam
rpmfusion-nonfree-tainted RPM Fusion for Fedora 37 - Nonfree tainted
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 37 - Nonfree - Updates
updates Fedora 37 - x86_64 - Updates
updates-modular Fedora Modular 37 - x86_64 - Updates
What I have done:
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updated system and installed NVIDIA driver using
sudo dnf install akmod-NVIDIA
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It installed with no errors.
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rebooted
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When logging in, I get an message that states kernel failure, reverting to nouveau kernel and then it logs in
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I had been using Wayland. Noticed when I logged in using X11…after another reboot…, I did not get that message, but I guess that is because it already had reverted the kernal.
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I also noticed that I now have a service failure: NVIDIA powered - failed to start
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I removed the nvidia driver:
sudo dnf remove akmod-NVIDIA
After doing that and rebooting, I am still getting the kernel failure, reverting to nouveau kernel message.
Output on inxi -Fzxx:
Kernel: 6.1.5-200.fc37.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 2.38-25.fc37 Desktop: GNOME v: 43.2 tk: GTK v: 3.24.36 wm: gnome-shell
dm: GDM Distro: Fedora release 37 (Thirty Seven)
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Dell product: XPS 8930 v: 1.1.26
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: 0T2HR0 v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
v: 1.1.26 date: 09/23/2022
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Marathon Mouse/Performance Plus
M705 serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) status: discharging
Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech MX Keys Wireless Keyboard
serial: <filter> charge: 50% (should be ignored) status: discharging
CPU:
Info: 8-core model: Intel Core i7-9700 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Coffee Lake
rev: D cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 2 MiB L3: 12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 4655 high: 4700 min/max: 800/4700 cores: 1: 4700 2: 4604
3: 4603 4: 4700 5: 4674 6: 4700 7: 4602 8: 4664 bogomips: 48000
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Dell
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 ports: active: none
empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e98
Device-2: NVIDIA TU117 [GeForce GTX 1650] vendor: Dell driver: nouveau
v: kernel arch: Turing pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
active: HDMI-A-3 empty: DVI-D-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f82
temp: 28.0 C
Device-3: Logitech C920 HD Pro Webcam type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-11.3:8 chip-ID: 046d:0892
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.7
compositors: 1: gnome-shell 2: Tabby driver: X: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: nouveau,iris gpu: nouveau display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-3 model: Philips PHL 323E7 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 70
diag: 801mm (31.5")
API: OpenGL v: 4.3 Mesa 22.3.3 renderer: NV167 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 1-11.3:8 bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 046d:0892
chip-ID: 8086:a2f0
Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10fa
Device-3: Logitech C920 HD Pro Webcam type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
Sound API: ALSA v: k6.1.5-200.fc37.x86_64 running: yes
Sound Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.64 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Dell driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0042
IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Dell
driver: alx v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000
bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:e0a1
IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-8:3
chip-ID: 0cf3:e009
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.73 TiB used: 846.89 GiB (30.3%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDBNCE0010PNC
size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Seagate model: Portable size: 1.82 TiB
serial: <filter>
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 929.93 GiB used: 188.44 GiB (20.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda3
ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 277.3 MiB (28.5%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda2
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 17.4 MiB (2.9%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda1
ID-4: /home size: 929.93 GiB used: 188.44 GiB (20.3%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/sda3
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 8.5 MiB (0.1%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 34.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 28.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 1463 mobo: 854
Info:
Processes: 415 Uptime: 12h 14m Memory: 15.46 GiB used: 6.02 GiB (38.9%)
Init: systemd v: 251 target: graphical (5) default: graphical Compilers:
gcc: 12.2.1 Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 64
Shell: Bash v: 5.2.15 running-in: tabby inxi: 3.3.24```