New Laptop Issues - screen flicker and VMWare Workstation

[Sbob]

All;


I picked up a new laptop yesterday, a Dell XPS 17 - DELL X9720 
12700H/32/1/17P


See the output of lspci below


Here are the issues I am trying to solve:


1) If i do not install the NVIDIA drivers then a second monitor does not 
work, if I do install the NVIDIA drivers then I get a screen flicker on 
the laptop screen about every minute


2) VMWare workstation does not work with kernel 5.19.13-200.fc36.x86_64, 
I have tried the patch found here:

https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules


I have disabled secure boot but the vmmon module will not load. VMWare 
starts but if I try to start a VM I get this message:

Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory.
Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded.




Thanks in advance for any help




# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 12th Gen Core Processor Host 
Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 12th Gen Core Processor PCI 
Express x16 Controller #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P 
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
0000:00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake 
Innovation Platform Framework Processor Participant (rev 02)
0000:00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation RST VMD Managed Controller
0000:00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Thunderbolt 4 
PCI Express Root Port #0 (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Thunderbolt 4 
PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:07.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Thunderbolt 4 
PCI Express Root Port #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:07.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Thunderbolt 4 
PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 12th Gen Core 
Processor Gaussian & Neural Accelerator (rev 02)
0000:00:0d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Thunderbolt 
4 USB Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:0d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Thunderbolt 
4 NHI #0 (rev 02)
0000:00:0d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P Thunderbolt 
4 NHI #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation Volume Management 
Device NVMe RAID Controller
0000:00:12.0 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Device 51fc (rev 01)
0000:00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH USB 3.2 
xHCI Host Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH Shared SRAM 
(rev 01)
0000:00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi 
WiFi (rev 01)
0000:00:15.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH 
Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 01)
0000:00:15.1 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH 
Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 01)
0000:00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH 
HECI Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 51bb (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH eSPI 
Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake 
PCH-P High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH-P SMBus Host 
Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P PCH 
SPI Controller (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 
Mobile] (rev a1)
0000:aa:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTS5260 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
10000:e0:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 12th Gen Core Processor PCI 
Express x4 Controller #0 (rev 02)
10000:e0:06.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 12th Gen Core Processor PCI 
Express x4 Controller #2 (rev 02)
10000:e1:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Micron/Crucial Technology 
Device 5412
10000:e2:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Phison Electronics 
Corporation E18 PCIe4 NVMe Controller (rev 01)