DaVinci Resolve Studio on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Linux

Hello Everyone: I recently switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Linux and went to install Resolve Studio, which is launching with some help on this distro. I have successfully got it to launch, but it immediately shows an error message:

Error message on launch of Resolve Studio

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I am sure this is because I am not setting the environment variables for my NVIDIA 3060 GPU as it does not see it and I have verified the drivers are up-to-date! Furthermore, I am in the KDE Desktop and not sure how to place them so the launcher "sees" the variables and clears the error so I can get to editing. I need a little hand holding here, even though I am a veteran user of Linux and know OpenSUSE fairly well. Also, this did work on Arch Linux and I even posted all my findings on that Distro, but those issues are not the same on OpenSUSE. Hope someone can help on this as it is driving me a bit insane.
Thanks in advance for any help on this. Specifically, I am not sure how to set the following environment variables in the launcher:

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__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1, __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia, __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only

These were mentioned in the installation instructions I was following, but they were actually for DR 18 and not the current version that I have installed on this system.

Hello Again to all: I have gotten past the first "hurdle" I mentioned in the last post, the new error involves not seeing the GPU at all, and I did make sure to update the drivers just to be sure that the very latest NVIDIA drivers are available on my system and verified their installation using GLXINFO.

Now the error message is:

New DaVinci Error

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This comes up right after the launch screen and when you select "check config" there are no gpus listed if you deselect "auto".

I have specified the environment variables I mentioned in the last post, but it makes no difference running it with or without them. The actual launching only works in the following manner:

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LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0:/usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0:/usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 /opt/resolve/bin/resolve

It would seem DR cannot find the drivers, but I am not sure what needs to be altered to get this to work.

Thanks again for the "hand-holding" on this!

[Dwaine Maggart]

Without a Resolve diagnostics log, there is no way to even guess what's going on. You should have an app in the Applications list called DaVinci Resolve Capture Logs (with a gear icon) that will generate a log file.

You say you have NVIDIA drivers installed. Do you have an NVIDIA X Server Settings app then? If so, a screen what of what that shows in the System Information and GPU-0 selections might be helpful.

Hello: I will look for a log gear. But first note is that my system is running KDE 6 and Wayland, so the Xorg stuff is not even involved. I did have it on Xorg for Arch Linux, but Linux is moving towards Wayland instead of X in the very near future (especially on a rolling release like Tumbleweed). Other folks have had it working, but nobody is stating whether they are reverting to Xorg or to Wayland, like my machine is now.

Is there already a log someplace? I ask because the error comes up right after startup and the app closes immediately.

Capture Logs doesn't even run when I found it. Looking at the log, the video error is not showing up. Hope that someone can help troubleshoot. I simply cannot seem past the splash and fatal quit.

I did try to run the log script mentioned from the command line. It is looking for Xorg files that are not on the system as I mentioned because the distro is on Wayland at this time, perhaps there needs to be Wayland support added? I know that other users will be running into this.

Thanks again.


Thanks in advance.

[Dwaine Maggart]

Since you got to the point shown in your screen shots, there will certainly be logs.

The CaptureLogs app will get several things that are helpful. Hard to imagine it wouldn't have worked.

You can command line generate a log file this way:

/opt/resolve/scripts/script.getlogs.v4

Note that running this from the command line will generate lots of errors and that's totally normal. It should still make the log file we desire. And yes, it would be looking for X11 stuff, so will complain about that. Should still give us something to work with.

I see that the NVIDIA X Server app is X11 specific and probably not there or not helpful in a full Wayland scenario. All I can say about that is our official Linux support is we support RHEL/CentOS 7.x and Rocky 8.6. Both of which use X11. So if there are Wayland issues, not much help we can provide. Hopefully other Linux users here on the forum using a scenario similar to yours (if there are any) can provide suggestions.

In any case, a log file would probably help anyone trying to help you.

Ok, guys, I finally got back to trying to figure out what is going on with my DR Studio install. Quick recap, Resolve does not appear to "see" the video card (NVIDIA RTX 3060) even though the drivers are verified to be installed correctly. My Operating System is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and is completely up-to-date (it is a rolling release, so it is always on the latest versions of everything, which includes libraries). Also, I am using a complete KDE 6 / Wayland environment, so X11 isn't even present. The rest is outlined in earlier posts in this thread.

As requested, though I don't know how much it will help, this is the output from running the 'scripts.getlogs.v4' command as I was advised to post this.

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jmneedham@vulcan /opt/resolve/scripts : sudo ./script.getlogs.v4                                         
[sudo] password for root:
./script.getlogs.v4: line 31: cd: /root/.local/share/DaVinciResolve/logs: No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/root/.local/share/DaVinciResolve/logs/site1.log': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/root/.local/share/DaVinciResolve/logs/ResolveDebug.txt': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/root/.local/share/DaVinciResolve/logs/ResolveDebug.txt.backup': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/root/.local/share/DaVinciResolve/logs/rollinglog.txt': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/root/.local/share/DaVinciResolve/crash_archive.txt': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/root/.local/share/DaVinciResolve/Fusion/Profiles': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/root/.local/share/DaVinciResolve/configs': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/var/log/messages': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/etc/X11/XF86Config*': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/var/log/XFree86.*.log': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/etc/X11/xorg.conf': No such file or directory
./script.getlogs.v4: line 122: /sbin/chkconfig: No such file or directory
top: unknown option 'bn'
jmneedham@vulcan /opt/resolve/scripts :

Hope this helps with troubleshooting. ***Please note, installing Xorg could break the system as OpenSUSE has changed over to Wayland and KDE is going to sunset Xorg in the next release of KDE Desktop.

Also, this may be a good time to offer my feedback about DaVinci Resolve Studio on Linux as the developers always seem to want our feedback, so here is my suggestion pertaining to improvements I would like to see:
1. I am all in on the idea of offering a Flatpak install (or RPM) instead of the current "run" installer. This would work fine in most RPM based systems like mine (OpenSUSE) or Red Hat, which would include Rocky Linux.
2. I am not opposed to having invested in this product, and I am proud to support BMD! I applaud the fact that BMD actually supports Linux at all! Number 1 in the list here, would solve a lot of issues with the average Linux user using DaVinci which would help on market share in the film industry.

Please do consider this from a paid Studio user. Thank you in advance for helping me with this, and I am more than willing to work with the development team (if they would like) to test future ideas for this product. Sorry for the novel of a post here.

I am using a complete KDE 6 / Wayland environment

I have not been following Wayland development closely, but last I looked it was a bit immature. I know desktop/window manager support has been evolving. Are there other applications like Resolve (Qt, compositing, accelerated video and GPU computing) running under Wayland?

Following this, as I just installed tumbleweed, I guess i will need to go back to Leap. Davinci Resolve worked great in Leap.

did you install Nvidia drivers from Packman?

Just curious as I have DaVinci Resolve Studio installed on Leap 15.6.

This is resolved as I decided to move from OpenSUSE to Fedora.And I am changing my GPU to a Radeon to avoid driver problems. Thanks for your thoughts on this. This thread can be marked as resolved.

I agree about moving to Radeon, one day I hope too.

but to fix the issue, use:
sudo zypper in nvidia-compute-G06

this is how I fixed the issue. Dont know if its correct, but it works. Did a fresh install last night to confirm.
These are my full notes:
sudo zypper in nvidia-compute-G06.
Install packages -

Tumbleweed: libapr1-0 libapr-util1-0
LEAP: libapr-util1 libgthread-2_0-0

BOTH: libopencl-clang14 libOpenCL1 Mesa-libOpenCL libpango-1_0-0-32bit libpangomm-1_4-1 libpangomm-2_48-1 libapr1

THEN

sudo zypper in gtk3-devel

cd /opt/resolve/libs
sudo mkdir _disabled
sudo mv libgio* libglib* libgmodule* libgobject* _disabled