I have a ~10 year old laptop with Intel® HD Graphics 530 and a GTX 970M. CPU is 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz.
Aurora worked fine when I had it set like this:
I then switched to this (NVIDIA GPU driver with DX):
I hoped to get NVIDIA drivers working, but the system now hangs when sleeping and when closing the lid. Is Aurora not supposed to work with hybrid (Intel/NVIDIA) graphics?
Works fine. Really old stuff is prertty much unsupported by nvidia so it is what it is.
For Nvidia cards 1060 and before, Nvidia does not support them in their new open driver. So you need the Nvidia proprietary driver. I think images with the proprietary driver are still being created, but support will end when Nvidia ends support.
Maybe someone can chime in with a location for Aurora images with the proprietary driver (if they exist).
The list of Aurora images is here
If all else fails, you can switch to Bazzite, which has a selection to download an image with Nvidia 9xx support. You can find that here.
Older nvidia images are still available and looos like he is usinf rhem already. So its just propably some nvidia sheanigans with sleep.
Ah. I stand corrected.
I’ll leave my post for Future People™ who might stumble upon it.
Sleep issues in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with a recent NVIDIA GPU (as well as a wifi/Bluetooth PCI card) plagued my PC for months and installing Aurora fixed everything. It will be my last NVIDIA GPU.
Have you tried the NVIDIA (Legacy) GPU driver setting? Because “NVIDIA” is for recent GPUs.
On what image stream are you? If you do this in Terminal or Konsole:
rpm-ostree status
I get:
State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: stage; rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer: inactive
Deployments:
ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/aurora-dx-nvidia-open:stable-daily
Digest: sha256:ef52e677f2c0ac9b34cf5da579b2dab604569a2b5d5fc0ca698e79574514d115
Version: 42.20250715.3 (2025-07-15T13:02:42Z)
In your case, you want to be on aurora-dx-nvidia:stable. I think that setting NVIDIA (Legacy) will do that.
Oh right. @mikael i think you need to have the Nvidia (legacy) image for that older card and not the NVIDIA one as that uses the new open drivers.
But I also add a note here that those legacy driver images will be gone when F43 drops. As nvidia has already dropped support for them (no new drivers etc) and its just a matter of time that they drop them.
Thanks! Was hoping this would work, but it still does not go to sleep when I close the lid. When I open the lid the screen is black but the disk activity indicator LED is blinking. The machine is obviously not sleeping but the only way out is holding the power button to power off.
Guess I can try regular Fedora with proprietary drivers? Are “NVIDIA (legacy)” in Aurora the open drivers?
They are the old propietary nvidia drivers. -open (or in the aurora preference gui - Nvidia) are the new drivers which only support 16XX cards and up
Oh, OK. I’m happy I did not buy NVIDIA for my new machine. Guess I’ll have to try Linux Mint or something… Can’t think of a lucrative Plasma alternative without snaps that isn’t Fedora based.
I see this attitude creeping into Linux discourse more and more … the cell phone mentality. Just throw perfectly good hardware in the trash rather than find a solution to manufacturers making it deliberately obsolete.
I have systems here that have nvidia GT 1030 cards in them (because thats all I can afford) and second hand Dell laptops with nothing more than 7th gen core i7 with uhd graphics that work just fine on a variety of distros. My current choice is Cachy OS on those machines because the Arch ecosystem avoids corporate vendor lock in and Cachy OS really squeezes every last bit of performance out of my humble hardware. Not trolling, just giving my perspective.
There just isn’t a solution or anything that can be done about it. NVIDIA doesn’t support it. Nouveau exists as an opensource driver but it’s very limited. The solution is to never buy Nvidia, and just focus on intel or AMD as those are what is supported by Linux. If you use closed source drivers, you’re at the whim of closed source companies.