There’s a lot of info floating around about the 5090 and linux support. Seems people are having success, but I don’t see a lot of info talking about my specific issue which is getting HDR to work within KDE Plasma on Bazzite Linux.
I only bring this up because I really wanted to try and transition my main build to a “linux first” machine. Bazzite seemed like a trendy option, and it was working well on my new 9800x3d system with a 4090 in it. Everything worked great.
I won the RNG lottery with Nvidia’s mailing list, and was recently granted the privilege of spending 2k on a 5090, so I upgraded the 4090 to the 5090. Fun!
HDR was working on the 4090. In fact, I was loving the experience I was having. However, when I put in the 5090, HDR no longer functions. It just provides me a washed out image when enabled, so I’m unsure if it’s a driver issue, a KDE plasma issue, or what.
I thought about installing Arch and seeing if I could make it work DIY, but I wanted to see if anyone here has had success with Linux HDR on a 5000 series GPU. If so, than maybe going the Arch route isn’t a bad idea. Thanks for any info in advance.
Bazzite is a custom Fedora Atomic image from what I understand, focused on gaming. Checking my fetch, It claims it’s Linux 6.13.5-102.bazzite.fc41.x86_64, I guess some sort of modified kernel?
I do suspect a driver issue, which I can’t say I’m surprised. I just wish more people were able to get the 5000 series cards so there was more discussion into the topic. I’ll have to complain to Nvidia directly then. lol
Yea that’s good advice, but when I tried switching to that branch I couldn’t boot into it for some reason and had to roll back. lol I’ll probably deploy another distro soon just to test to see if things change.
You cannot use proprietary drivers on the 5090. It is entirely dependent on the Mesa stack and how it deals with Wayland and Gamescope for HDR compatibility now. The 4090 used the proprietary drivers.
