Conflicting Nvidia Driver

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I am using dual boot Windows 11/Fedora 44 KDE with secure boot enabled and an NVidia 4080 Super mainly for playing games but general use as well. I know nvidia doesn’t always play nice but it’s what I have. The most recent update to kernel 7.2.4-200.fc44.x86_64 (64-bit) broke my nvidia driver. It seems to have conflicting versions. Current graphics processor listed is llvmpipe. I tried removing and reinstalling(both flatpak and terminal versions, neither worked), I also tried re-registering the mok key. The driver will not properly install or work properly. I am hoping I don’t need to wipe the drive and reinstall Fedora. This is the error message that pops up.

Transaction failed: Rpm transaction failed.

  • file /usr/lib64/libnvidia-ml.so.1 conflicts between atte
    mpted installs of xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs-3:610.57.04-
    1.fc44.x86_64 and nvidia-driver-common-3:615.71.09-1.fc44.x8
    6_64
  • file /usr/lib64/libnvidia-cfg.so.1 conflicts between att
    empted installs of xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-3:610.57.04-1.fc
    44.x86_64 and nvidia-driver-common-3:615.71.09-1.fc44.x86_64
  • file /usr/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh conflicts between att
    empted installs of xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-3:610.57.04-1.fc44.x8
    6_64 and nvidia-driver-common-3:615.71.09-1.fc44.x86_64
  • file /usr/bin/nvidia-powerd conflicts between attempted
    installs of xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power-3:610.57.04-1.fc44.x86
    _64 and nvidia-driver-common-3:615.71.09-1.fc44.x86_64
  • file /usr/share/nvidia/nvidia-powerd/dlsnetparams.csv co
    nflicts between attempted installs of xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-po
    wer-3:610.57.04-1.fc44.x86_64 and nvidia-driver-common-3:615
    .71.09-1.fc44.x86_64
2

Are you using the rpmfusion nvidia drivers? If not please switch to them.

3

it seems that you might be using the driver packaged by negativo17. Nothing’s wrong with that. Any chance that you still might have some parts of the previous driver installed on the system?

btw. 610.57.04 works perfectly fine with kernel 7.2.4.

4

I was using the rpmfusion drivers.

5

I didn’t use negativo17 package. I was using rpm fusion drivers and after the update broke them I tried removing them and installing drivers from the software center. Also, no driver parts are listed when I check installed nvidia drivers.

6

Then you seem to have conflicting repositories enabled, because nvidia-driver-common is not a rpm packaged by rpmfusion.

7

In over 99% of the cases where updates cause issues with nvidia drivers it seems the user performed the updates with the gui software tool and the system may have rebooted too early and thus corrupted the build of the new modules.

In most cases this is very easy to solve using the command line tools.
sudo dnf remove \*nvidia\* -x nvidia-gpu-firmware to remove any installed packages, followed by sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda and wait for a short time after the install completes before rebooting.

When issuing the the install command verify that the packages being installed come only from the rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver repo or the rpmfusion-nonfree-updates repo and no other repo!!