RTX 3050 Mobile (Hybrid AMD + NVIDIA Laptop) Reference Guide: Comprehensive-Wall28/Nvidia-Fedora-Guide System Profile Property Value OS Fedora 43 Workstation GPU (dGPU) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile GPU (iGPU) AMD Radeon Vega (Renoir) LUKS Encryption ❌ None Secure Boot ❌ Disabled Driver Installed 580.142 Why the Freeze Happened The freeze + screen dimming during use was caused by the default Nouveau open-source driver, which has poor power management on modern NVIDIA GPUs — especially on hybrid AMD+NVIDIA laptops. The Fix: Install Proprietary NVIDIA Drivers Step 1 — Update your system sudo dnf update Step 2 — Enable RPM Fusion (provides NVIDIA drivers) sudo dnf install \ 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 Step 3 — Identify your GPU lspci | grep -iE 'VGA|3D|nvidia' Step 4 — Install the driver (RTX 3050 = current driver) sudo dnf install…