🔗Fedora Silverblue
The following process will help you to setup your Asus machine with Fedora Silverblue.
If you are installing on a Zephyrus G14 (2022), there is a guide here which has lots of information.
🔗Installation
The user may exercise their own discretion with the options given, however be sure to decline the enabling of "third-party" repositories.
🔗Asus-Linux Repository
First we will add the Asus-Linux repository in order to install asusctl and supergfxctl.
Open a terminal window and enter
sudo nano /etc/yum.repos.d/asus.repo
We can then paste in the following with the key combination 'control + shift + v'
[copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:lukenukem:asus-linux]
name=Copr repo for asus-linux owned by lukenukem
baseurl=https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/lukenukem/asus-linux/fedora-$releasever-$basearch/
type=rpm-md
skip_if_unavailable=True
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/lukenukem/asus-linux/pubkey.gpg
repo_gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
enabled_metadata=1
We can save and exit with 'control + x'
🔗Nvidia
We can now start the process of acquiring and installing the NVIDIA drivers.
rpm-ostree install --apply-live https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
rpm-ostree update \
--uninstall rpmfusion-free-release-35-1.noarch \
--uninstall rpmfusion-nonfree-release-35-1.noarch \
--install rpmfusion-free-release \
--install rpmfusion-nonfree-release
Note that the specific rpmfusion release (e.g 35-1) will change with time. Use the command 'rpm-ostree status' to ensure you are removing the correct version in the above command.
rpm-ostree install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power asusctl supergfxctl
rpm-ostree kargs --append=rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau --append=modprobe.blacklist=nouveau --append=nvidia-drm.modeset=1
systemctl reboot
systemctl enable nvidia-{suspend,resume,hibernate}
systemctl enable --now supergfxd.service
systemctl mask nvidia-fallback.service
flatpak update
🔗Optional Optimisations
🔗Install the ROG Kernel
The ROG Kernel often contains patches that may provide benefit for the hardware you are running. The need for this will depend on your use case, your hardware and the current upstream status of these patches.
Unfortunately Silverblue is currently unable to automatically install a kernel from a COPR. Thus we will have to install and update this locally ourselves.
Head over here and grab the following .rpm files from the latest build.
- kernel
- kernel-core
- kernel-devel
- kernel-modules
- kernel-modules-extra
We can now use the following syntax to override the default kernel
rpm-ostree override replace <path_to_kernel> <path_to_kernel-core> <path_to_kernel-devel> <path_to_kernel-modules> <path_to_kernel-modules-extra>
🔗Flatpak Cleaning
In order to streamline our dependency on flatpak it is worthwhile to have everything working with the same fundamentals.
flatpak remove --all
flatpak remote-delete fedora
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak update
🔗Replace Firefox RPM with Flathub Flatpak and Force Wayland
rpm-ostree override remove firefox && flatpak install flathub org.mozilla.firefox flathub org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg-full
sudo flatpak override --socket=wayland --env=MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 org.mozilla.firefox
🔗Enable hardware decoding in Firefox
Enter about:config into the Firefox address bar. Ensure that the following settings are matched in your setup.
media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled = true
media.ffvpx.enabled = false
media.navigator.mediadatadecoder_vpx_enabled = true
media.rdd-vpx.enabled = false
🔗Flatseal and Steam
flatpak install flathub com.github.tchx84.Flatseal flathub com.valvesoftware.Steam
Open Flatseal and then add the following environment variables for Steam
__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1
__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
🔗GNOME Shell extension asusctl-gex
A desktop widget to operate some aspects of asusctl and supergfxctl: GNOME Shell extension asusctl-gex
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