Desktop logs out to lock screen (nvidia)

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Update:

  1. Ran through my script above, but instead of installing the closed source drivers, from Konsole:
    sudo dnf in nvidia-dkms-kmod-open-565.77-3-omv2490.x86_64.rpm
  2. This installed the necessary dependencies, and updated the kernel to 6.13.RC5
  3. After rebooting, I didn’t touch anything and let it boot straight to SDDM.
    4.1 NO ERRORS!!
    4.2 Was using the desktop for about two hours, installed Steam, Lutris and browsed the web.
    4.3 Tested four games, three worked fine, one of them has known issues. two of them were running through Proton.
    4.4 Tested WebGL. The de-googled Chromium it ran terrible. In the Vivaldi flatpak I installed it was smooth.

Cons:

  • There seems to be more screen tearing in games, didn’t notice any on the desktop.
  • I don’t know if this is related, but when I press CTRL+ALT+F4 to switch to TTY4, it is stuck on the loading display that OMLx shows when first loading from Grub. I tried also booting from the new Kernel straight to the Console and the same thing happens. It gets stuck on the loading screen, and I can’t switch to other TTY.

Conclusion:

  • Overall given how poorly the proprietary drivers worked for me in OMLx the open source drivers performed MUCH better. The Desktop was super responsive and made me hopeful for eventually replacing my Arch install on the desktop.
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