When trying to install the nvidia driver on Fedora 41 via dkms, which didn’t work, and after seeing the error message at startup asking me to check more information in /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/560.35.05/build/make.log, I noticed several warnings about “suggest braces around empty body in an ‘if’ statement” and others about “no previous prototype”, suggesting that some functions were not declared before being used.
Towards the end, in the nvidia-drm compilation section, there is an error:
error: ‘const struct drm_mode_config_funcs’ has no member named ‘output_poll_changed’
207 | .output_poll_changed = nv_drm_output_poll_changed,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This suggests that the drm_mode_config_funcs structure no longer has the output_poll_changed member in kernel 6.12.11-200.fc41.x86_64. This has probably been changed or removed in newer versions of the Linux kernel. The NVIDIA driver 560.35.05 may not be compatible with this specific kernel version.
How can I uninstall it if there are remnants left and fix this resulting in a clean install of the NVidia driver?
For Fedore recommended way, RPMFusion, only akmods is available.
To use DKMS with NVIDIA you’ll have to switch to Negativo17 repository. One that has the option to choose between akmod or dkms and choose to switch between proprietary and open drivers… as far as know.
If the nvidia driver appears to need dkms then it is apparent that you installed from some source other than rpmfusion.
Please remove the nvidia driver installed that way then reinstall it from the rpmfusion repo. The version from rpmfusion uses akmods instead of dkms, and also is tweaked/tested to perform & install properly with fedora. Those drivers are also properly updated when there are related updates in fedora.
Very very few users who install the nvidia drivers from rpmfusion ever report problems while those installing from nvidia or INTTF or negativo17 do often have problems.
I uninstalled it, cleared the cache and then used the command: sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.
I got the following error in the terminal:
The package “akmod-nvidia-3:560.35.03-1.fc41.x86_64” is already installed.
The argument ‘xorg-x11-drv-nvidia’ only matches excluded packages.
Problem: package akmod-nvidia-3:565.77-1.fc41.x86_64 from rpmfusion-nonfree-updates requires nvidia-kmod-common >= 3:565.77, but none of the providers can be installed
can’t install the best candidate for the task
package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-3:565.77-3.fc41.x86_64 from rpmfusion-nonfree-updates is excluded by exclusion filtering
package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-3:565.77-3.fc41.x86_64 from rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver is excluded by exclusion filtering
I checked the files in /etc/yum/repos.d and there are no lines with exclude=
I see that you seem stuck with the 560 driver which is the latest available from the cuda-fedora39-x86_64 repo.
It is also mostly known that the 560 driver does not seem to perform appropriately with the latest kernels, and Fedora 41 uses the 6.12.15 kernel at present.
The 560 driver does not properly support the nvidia 3000 series and newer GPUs, especially on fedora.
I repeat my suggestion from above to remove the nvidia drivers installed from the nvidia owned repo (cuda-fedora39-x86_64) and install the newer drivers only from rpmfusion. (The latest kernel for f39 was one of the 6.10 kernels AFAIK.)
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda (verify that the nvidia packages being installed are coming only from one of the rpmfusion-nonfree… repos)
It seems that 99+% of all users who do this are happy with the results and I have seen no reports of anyone who reverts back to the nvidia owned repos.
