TWIL 305 (just aired today and as we speak) prompted this question. I am running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and I have been beating my head against the wall trying to get DaVinci Resolve Studio up and running. Currently, I have followed some old workarounds and have it launching, however, it does not run because the program cannot seem to see my NVIDIA GPU which is an RTX 3060. There were multiple issues getting it running in the first place. Basically, at this time, I am thinking I need to make sure we have the “official” NVIDIA drivers installed, and I have actually consulted the official OpenSUSE forums for help as well. This is how I got this far!
If anyone has gotten this running and has updated procedure that makes it so that you don’t need to go through a bunch of tweaking to get the program running, I’d love to know your solution. I would add that I paid for the Studio version, as I am quite serious about using Resolve for my editing.
Thanks in advance!
J. Michael Needham, Lawrence, Kansas.
I’ve not installed DaVinci Resolve on openSUSE but hopefully I can help! I’m rednering in Davinci Resolve as I type on Fedora 41 (and I used it for a long time on Manjaro).
Having the offical drivers installed is a good start. Do you have the CUDA packages also installed?
I have als need to make sure libxcrypt-compat is installed. I have had times were all drivers are good to go, but DaVinci won’t launch until this is installed.
Also, I have to do some clean up after every DiVinci install/update. There are older libraries the come with DaVinci, and it creats a conflict. I used to run each command in the terminal, but I put it in a script and run it.
#!/bin/bash
cd /opt/resolve/libs
sudo mkdir /opt/resolve/libs/.unused_davinci_libs
sudo mv libglib* libgio* libgmodule* /opt/resolve/libs/.unused_davinci_libs
With the propriotary drivers, CUDA, installing libxcrypt-compat and this script I an have DaVinci up and running. Do 19. I tried to install the public beta of 20 and it kept crashing on me.
Also a good thing to note. In the Discord chat for Linux Out Loud and episode 109 we talk about a project that helps you install DaVinci on Fedora. That might be somethign to look into as well.
Did you get it working?
Hello Wendy: Never got it to work on OpenSUSE, though now that I understand the full process, it probably would work. I did get it fully working on Fedora 42. I also got Unreal Engine running. I am kind of sold on Fedora as my go to Linux distro as everything just seems to fall into place.
Glad you got it working. I like Fedora myself, and it is what I have installed on my in-laws’ desktop.