I'll just cut to the chase.
About 2-3 months ago I filed a bug report that overclocking on Nvidia
hardware wasn't working on Fedora. I observed this bug while trying out
Fedora Silverblue 30's release but not in beta. I then later sent an
email about this issue wherein Nvidia was immediately blamed for the bug
despite this not being an issue on any other Linux distro. I was then
asked to file a bug report and had provider information, which I did by
doing multiple reinstalls of Silverblue/Workstation.
2-3 months ago by and the bug report has been closed because I didn't
and couldn't do a deep level analysis. I don't use Fedora, I use Arch
Linux. This isn't my distro and I'm not the one that broke it to begin
with. The only reason I was even trying it out is because I really like
the whole immutable filesystem concept and was hoping that the bug and
issues with it would be ironed out and that I could switch to it if Arch
decided to take a dump.
Sadly the issues weren't last time I checked about a month ago.
Silverblue repos are often out of sync with the rest of Fedora resulting
in upgrades failing. You have to manually cleanup upgrade meta cache to
get upgrades to work correctly(rpm-ostree cleanup -m). Fedora update
servers in general are unstable and unreliable as hell, sometimes
returning HTTP error codes or just being offline. Gnome Software doesn't
display software correctly on the front page. There still is no way to
add Flatpak external disks via Gnome-Settings as of 3.34. You can't use
Rawhide with Nvidia drivers because of debug kernel. There is a lack of
software compared to other Linux distros like Ubuntu or Arch(no
Vivaldi!?!?). Fedora developers tend to be hostile towards proprietary
software. etc.
No, Red Hat. Fedora Silverblue isn't easy to use.
...but I digress...
I got the email and decided to check the nvidia-settings repo on
Github[1]. Apparently, Someone has filed a bug report about overclocking
on rootless X. org servers doesn't work[2]. I then downloaded Fedora
Workstation and installed the Nvidia driver and checked which user the
X. org server was running under.
Mini rant: By the way, update your damn installer images. Users
shouldn't have to install 400MB of updates after they just install the
distro. The installer image has Firefox 66 on it still! That's really
freaking stupid. On my 5400RPM drive it takes a half hour to install all
of that crap, which is longer than installing the distro itself or
updating under Silverblue!
Yep, X. Org **ISN"T** running under root. Overclocking doesn't work
either, same as before.
So I then tried making X. Org run as root using the Arch Wiki's guide[3]
and verified that I was now running as root.
I was... and overclocking is now working.
...seriously? You make a abrupt change to Fedora 30 literally right
before it was released, breaking overclocking applications such as my
own AND Nvidia's own software, and then blame Nvidia for your own
screwup? /Really/?
So problem found. It was a problem in Fedora all along, like I said from
nearly the beginning. Fix problems that **YOU** make instead of blaming
Nvidia next time.
[1]
https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-settings/
[2]
https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-settings/issues/42
[3]
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Rootless_Xorg