[Fedora 41] - nvidia driver installation not working for RTX-4050

Hello. I tried installing the nvidia drivers through both methods; the software center and manually signing with akmods.

In both cases, the laptop will boot, but once wayland loads, I can’t open any applications (including the terminal).

This is the hardware through lspci (ran after removing the nvidia drivers, thats why it shows noveau).

➜  ~ lspci -n -n -k | grep -A 2 -e VGA -e 3D
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-P [Intel Arc Graphics] [8086:7d55] (rev 08)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0c6b]
	Kernel driver in use: i915
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0000:01:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation AD107M [GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q / Mobile] [10de:28a1] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0c6b]
	Kernel driver in use: nouveau

Any advice for getting the nvidia drivers to work. or just hang on for a few weeks?

i got the same issue with 4060 laptop gpu

I’m having a similar issue on a Dell Inspiron 3501. However I can’t seem to see the drivers in Software Centre at all. :frowning: If I install through dnf package manager, then I get the prompt to enrol the mok through software centre, but I can’t seem to install “nvidia” drivers from the software centre. Installing nvidia packages via dnf causes me to have the same issue where applications wont load, so I’ve ended up removing them via dnf for now. Any assistance from anyone would be appreciated!

I fixed it, at least for me. I ran nvidia-smi and it told me what packages to install to get that command. I installed all the packages and I restarted my PC and the driver just worked. I had rmpfusion repo enabled.

Added f41, nvidia

This is confusing.
Please show the output of dnf list installed '*nvidia*'
Signing the modules is what is enabled when following the steps in the file /usr/share/doc/akmods/README.secureboot or the guide at
Howto/Secure Boot - RPM Fusion

Installing the packages manually is done by following the instructions at
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

To verify that the signing key is imported into bios use the very last command in that README file (it does require using sudo).
To verify that the installed kmod is properly signed use
sudo akmods --force --rebuild
Reboot after running that command.

I’m not sure if the root cause is the same… but I was able to resolve this issue by following this… Latest Gnome apps not working in fedora 41 using wayland
I think that perhaps the Nvidia driver wasn’t loading properly and then following the steps to reinstall worked, but even after it was loading I was still getting the issue you’re describing where some of the apps weren’t loading. Old terminal would load but the new terminal wouldn’t. Anywho… hope this helps if anyone else has the same issue.