Had issues with Youtube randomly totally freezing my ultra-quiet system.
Also excessive fan activity on my graphics card.
- Operating System : Kubuntu 24.04
- KDE Plasma Version : 5.27.12
- KDE Frameworks Version : 5.115.0
- Qt Version : 5.15.13ernel Version : 6.8.0-94-generic (64-bit)
- Graphics Platform : X11
- Processors : 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor
- Memory : 62,7 GiB of RAM
- Graphics card : Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
- Graphics Processor : zink Vulkan 1.4
- Motherboard Product Name : ASRock B550 Extreme4
TL/DR : Zink turned out to be the culprit.
I found and followed https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-nvidia-drivers-on-ubuntu-24-04
Method 3: Automatic Install using PPA repository
This installed the recommended driver.
Problem solved. No more freezes. Plus 0.0 fan activity on graphics card (easy control by Nvidia Server Settings > Thermal Settings).