Installing an always-up-to-date Version of The CUDA Toolkit

[malcolmlewis]

@malcolmlewis

## GeForce RTX 3050 as default Vulkan Device
MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT="10de:25ec"
## Intel Vulkan Mesa/GTK Bug workaround
## should be resolved in Mesa 25.3.1 release
GSK_RENDERER=gl

The only exception is that the last line is prefixed with the pound symbol (#).

If it has the # infront then it is commented out, so need to remove…

The inxi output from the previous command should show the Nvidia device as the default now…

[kryzet]

@malcolmlewis

If it has the # infront then it is commented out

That’s the workaround I was looking to avoid as mentioned in the first post
Wouldn’t that workaround cause Vulkan to be ignored entirely by GTK applications?

@malcolmlewis

The inxi output from the previous command should show the Nvidia device as the default now…

Indeed.

> inxi -za -Ga
...
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.328 layers: 3 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: NVIDIA
    GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU driver: nvidia v: 580.105.08
    device-ID: 10de:25ec surfaces: N/A device: 1 type: integrated-gpu
    name: Intel UHD Graphics (ADL-S GT0.5) driver: mesa intel v: 25.3.0
    device-ID: 8086:468b surfaces: N/A ...
...

[kryzet]

@kryzet

So can I use the openSUSE Leap repository to get the latest version of the toolkit, and it’ll continue to work correctly when updated as long as everything comes exclusively from that one repository?

@arvidjaar I would love your input on this.

[kryzet]

@malcolmlewis

[malcolmlewis]

@kryzet so are you seeing the issue still after the switch to the Nvidia card for Vulkan? Until Mesa 25.3.1 is released AFAIK this work around will be needed…

Edit: removing libvulkan_intel and switch to the nvidia vulkan should suffice.

[kryzet]

I am not seeing it, but a new one popped up: after a sufficiently long suspend colorful artifacts cover the borders of GTK windows (specifically Text Editor). I have only observed the issue once IIRC.