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It is difficult to say I would try the 390 because your fake card should be not so old and maybe if it is a copy of 400/500 series the 390.x driver will do the work, or maybe it is more old that I think and it doesn’t work either but you should try in first place to check before to downgrade to the 340. And before downgrade to 340 with a old kernel not looks the best thing to do. before to downgrade to 340 i would stay with nouveau a time because there are also rumors about a open driver from nvidia to linux coming this year. So if 390 does work perfect if it don’t stay with nouveau a bit more. It is my thinking.

https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA#Legacy_GeForce_400.2F500

Legacy GeForce 400/500

Supported on current stable Xorg server release.

This driver is suitable for any NVIDIA Fermi GPU found between 2010 and 2012

sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-390xx akmod-nvidia-390xx sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-390xx-cuda #optional for cuda up to 9.2 support dnf update -y

![/!|15x15](https://rpmfusion.org/moin_static1910/rpmfusion/img/alert.png "/!") Please remember to wait after the RPM transaction ends, until the kmod get built. This can take up to 5 minutes on some systems.

Regards.

@xtym I went with your suggestion using 390…

[buzzzbuilder@localhost ~]$ lsmod | grep -i nvidia

nvidia_drm 53248 2
nvidia_modeset 1056768 12 nvidia_drm
nvidia 14729216 501 nvidia_modeset
drm_kms_helper 212992 1 nvidia_drm
drm 512000 5 drm_kms_helper,nvidia_drm
ipmi_msghandler 73728 2 ipmi_devintf,nvidia

[buzzzbuilder@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/cmdline

BOOT_IMAGE=(hd2,gpt2)/vmlinuz-5.3.16-300.fc31.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/fedora_localhost–live-root ro resume=/dev/mapper/fedora_localhost–live-swap rd.lvm.lv=fedora_localhost-live/root rd.lvm.lv=fedora_localhost-live/swap rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1

[buzzzbuilder@localhost ~]$ ls /etc/modprobe.d/

firewalld-sysctls.conf lockd.conf nvdimm-security.conf
kvm.conf mlx4.conf truescale.conf

[buzzzbuilder@localhost ~]$ glxinfo | grep -i OpenGL

OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.132
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIA
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.132
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIA
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 NVIDIA 390.132
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

[buzzzbuilder@localhost ~]$ glxinfo -B

name of display: :1
display: :1 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Memory info (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info):
Dedicated video memory: 4096 MB
Total available memory: 4096 MB
Currently available dedicated video memory: 3637 MB
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.132
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIA
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.132
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIA
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: (none)

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 NVIDIA 390.132
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20

Well I would say that your advice @xtym and intuition is spot on! I think we have salvaged the use of this GPU ! which should be better than my previous 1G card I had in it. I was hoping for 4K graphics when my son got me this card, lesson learned on researching the product and trusting a vendor online.

For now I will stick to your last suggestion. Thank You so much for your help, and involvement from others as well. CHEERS

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Nice! it is working …for the audio ID code it looked be one GTS 450 aprox. You will be ok :slight_smile:

It was a pleasure to can help a bit.
Regards.

Should you need it future, be sure to check this out GitHub - t0xic0der/nvidia-auto-installer-for-fedora-linux: A CLI tool which lets you install proprietary NVIDIA drivers and much more easily on Fedora Linux (32 or above and Rawhide)