This is a discussion topic for the following Common Issue: [image] Upgrading to Fedora 44 breaks Nvidia driver for older GPUs (GeForce 10xx and older) Common Issues Problem After upgrading to Fedora 44, the Nvidia driver fails to load on certain cards. An error…

Please see the Common Issue for solution/workarounds: [image] Upgrading to Fedora 44 breaks Nvidia driver for older GPUs (GeForce 10xx and older) Common Issues Problem After upgrading to Fedora 44, the Nvidia driver fails to load on certain cards. An error is d…

The Discuss pop-up says I need to start a new topic and not reply here if the solution isn’t working for me, but the OP is clear that this is the discussion topic for the listed issue. I will defer to the OP rather than the site pop-up. Thanks for the post, I appreciate that even these old GPUs are…

A bit disappointing they’re (NVIDIA) dropping support for these so soon. They’re not even a decade old yet and are still solid budget GPUs.

Strange. Can you try removing the current packages and installing the 580xx ones separately? sudo dnf remove xorg-x11-drv-nvidia akmod-nvidia sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-580xx akmod-nvidia-580xx Wait a bit for the driver kmod to be built and reboot. @leigh123linux any idea why the swap o…

Actually Pascal gen cards were released exactly 10 years ago (May 27, 2016).

[image] Yuri: Wait a bit for the driver kmod to be built and reboot. Is there any better recommendation than “wait a bit”? For example running pgrep -a something until something disappears?

[image] Kamil Páral: Is there any better recommendation than “wait a bit”? For example running pgrep -a something until something disappears? Yes: pgrep -a akmods covers all the cases: the posttrans of a akmod-KMOD the posttrans of a new kernel (done with a systemd unit)

Thanks. Can you please prepare an exact text snippet that I can include in the common issue description? I can write something myself blindly, but I can’t verify that it actually works.

Yes - watch -n 2 tail /var/cache/nvidia/.last.log. You want to see something like: Running transaction [1/3] Verify package files 100% | 35.0 B/s | 1.0 B | 00m00s [2/3] Prepare transaction 100% | 1.0 B/s | 1.0 B | 00m01s [3/3] Installing kmod-nvidia-7.0.…

[image] Kamil Páral: Can you please prepare an exact text snippet that I can include in the common issue description? Somethink like replacing: Wait for akmods to finish building the driver kmod and reboot. by Wait for akmods to finish building the driver kmod, for example with: watch pg…

[image] Steve Flynn: Yes - watch -n 2 tail /var/cache/nvidia/.last.log. In this case, it should be /var/cache/akmods/nvidia-580xx/.last.log Also, if akmods build for 2 kernels, you should watch 2 times this log.

[Common Issue Talk] Upgrading to Fedora 44 breaks Nvidia driver for older GPUs (GeForce 10xx and older)

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[Common Issue Talk] Upgrading to Fedora 44 breaks Nvidia driver for older GPUs (GeForce 10xx and older)

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