Well guys! I did it! Linux mint on my desktop! Finally! Everything seemed like it was going swimmingly save for some minor issues. But then I ran into one: I did use stability matrix to make furry porn (very bad furry porn, don’t ask) but when I tried to run it, it kept telling me it had issues with python and cuda and other stuff. I wondered if the problem was just python libraries or my nvidia drivers. I did manage to get a workaround, but it simply wouldn’t use my GPU… in fact, I think I am having a super hard time seeing if I am even using it properly.

Speaking of drivers I tried to install the latest one, but that caused a problem. I use multiple monitors (because of course I do). Three in fact, but only one ended up working with the other two entirely unrecognized. And I still wasn’t able to use my GPU to get stability matrix (or even stability forge without that) and my games still can’t run on max graphics settings. I’ve been looking around for some help on this and trying to work on it all day, with limited success. It is basically the only major thing going wrong with my transition from windows to linux.

Any help here?

  • Mereo@lemmy.ca
    6·
    4 days ago

    Have you decided on Mint yet? If not, the Bazzite distro will be easy to use. All you need to do is download the Nvidia image and install it. It will work right away. Steam and the Nvidia drivers are already installed and configured. No configuration is needed.

    • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.onlineOP
      3·
      4 days ago

      I suppose I can change things… I mean I haven’t been on linux mint that long… I didn’t hear about Bazzite. Let me try to fix this before I try to use a different distro.

      • tyler@programming.dev
        3·
        4 days ago

        I went through about six distros in a week before deciding. Mint and zorin were both terrible on my nvidia card.

        • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.onlineOP
          1·
          2 days ago

          As it stands right now, due to Just_Another_Person’s link (https://itsfoss.com/nvidia-linux-mint/) pretty much took care of most of the issues. There is a minor issue with using LM studio and trying to load LLMs offline (privacy… if there is anything I miss about computing in the 90s is that there was very little in terms of any outside company looking into what you were doing on your comp), but that is not a major deal for now. I can use LLMs with small context windows. The large context windows were painfully slow anyway.

    • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.onlineOP
      2·
      4 days ago

      It gave the following

      Command ‘nvidia-smi’ not found, but can be installed with:

      sudo apt install nvidia-utils-525 # version 525.147.05-0ubuntu1, or

      sudo apt install nvidia-utils-525-server # version 525.147.05-0ubuntu1

      sudo apt install nvidia-utils-470 # version 470.256.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1

      sudo apt install nvidia-utils-470-server # version 470.256.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1

      sudo apt install nvidia-utils-535 # version 535.183.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1

      sudo apt install nvidia-utils-535-server # version 535.230.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.3

      sudo apt install nvidia-utils-550 # version 550.120-0ubuntu0.24.04.1

      sudo apt install nvidia-utils-570-server # version 570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4

      sudo apt install nvidia-utils-565-server # version 565.57.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.3

      sudo apt install nvidia-utils-550-server # version 550.144.03-0ubuntu0.24.04.1

        • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.onlineOP
          2·
          4 days ago

          So I installed using

          sudo apt install nvidia-utils-525

          And then ran nvidia-smi, it told me:

          NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

          Now I am kinda worried, because I had a very hard time installing the drivers…

        • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.onlineOP
          2·
          4 days ago

          Really? No driver? That explains a lot…

          My GPU is an GeForce RTX 4090. Top of the line shit, that’s why I want to make sure it is put to good use.

          • Squiddork@lemmy.world
            2·
            4 days ago

            Yeah sounds like missing drivers, pretty sure the latest nvidia driver is 580.xx but Mint might have an older version that’s stable.

            IIRC you should be able to install the drivers with the ‘Driver manager’ program

        • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.onlineOP
          2·
          4 days ago

          I went on the default driver manager and I selected the latest one there. It was Nvidia-driver-575-open. But that gave me issues and didn’t allow me to use all 3 of my monitors. The one that it says s selected now is the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau.

          I tried to go directly to Nvidia’s site, but I ran into some issues that it did say X server was running, then I had to go on… man, I don’t remember what that was one called, it asked for an admin username… and was it the one I chose at the very beginning? the password I am using didn’t workout for that. It is kinda weird. I’m really needing to learn a lot to get this to work properly. It’s exciting, but I’ll be very happy once it is over.