I recently formatted my computer and during the initial setup of Fedora, I encountered a significant issue with the video driver. I followed the tutorial provided at (Howto/NVIDIA - RPM Fusion), and proceeded with the recommended installation for my hardware (Current GeForce/Quadro/Tesla) using the following commands:
sudo dnf update -y # and reboot if you are not on the latest kernel
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia # rhel/centos users can use kmod-nvidia instead
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda # optional for cuda/nvdec/nvenc support
After waiting a few minutes, my PC simply froze on the boot screen indefinitely, making it impossible to use and significantly delaying my work. I’m currently using an older kernel version, for some reason when I boot into it the NVIDIA driver crashes and I revert to using Noveau.
I forgot to mention in the main post, but yes, my secure boot is disabled. I’ve also tried doing it the way you recommended, signing the driver with secure boot enabled (still no solution). And it seems that the creator of the related post didn’t find a solution either…
I tried removing the packages I had installed and booted into the latest kernel to try to use the PC without the driver for now. However, now my VSCode won’t open, and several applications are crashing (I don’t know if the issues are related).
I’m facing a lot of problems here.
What is the output of 'lsmod |grep -e nouveau -e nvidia’
and ‘rpm -qa nvidia\*’?
The last command should list a nvidia-gpu-firmware package. If not then install and reboot.
the conclusion of the related topic (same HW) was a nvidia driver error. Does problem report or the command coredumpctl show something related?
The last command didn’t return any output, how do I install the firmware? I currently don’t have the driver, so should I follow the tutorial again? If you can help me I would be very grateful.
if nouveau driver works good enough for you than probably keep using it for now.
otherwise try the beta driver (have not tried that one).
Update: you removed the firmware with the removal of the nvidia driver. This happens if you do something like dnf remove \*nvidia\*. The nvidia firmware package must not be removed if you have a nvidia gpu.
