Fedora 44, kernel 6.19.x nVidia akmod cannot be built

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Hi, when will be built a new nVidia drivers (akmod) for kernel 6.19.x ?

NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver
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RPMFusion Rawhide has 590.48.01 - is that version failing to build?

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yes

that one.

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Right. This looks like an upstream issue that Nvidia is working on.

Also there is a kernel patch suggested in that thread, if you have an appetite for making that kind of change. Although someone says “depending on your distribution, compilation may still fail, if said kernel is set to treat certain warnings as errors, in which case you will need to do a bit more” - so I don’t know if this applies to Fedora.

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Let me take a look at it. Probably it would help.

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There is a unreleased fix at rpmfusion koji

* Tue Feb 10 2026 Leigh Scott <leigh123linux@gmail.com> - 3:590.48.01-2
- Add patch for 6.19rc kernel

leigh@leigh-pc:~$ rpm -qa kmod-nvidia\*
kmod-nvidia-6.18.8-200.fc43.x86_64-590.48.01-2.fc43.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-6.19.0-0.rc8.54.fc44.x86_64-590.48.01-2.fc44.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-6.19.0-59.fc44.x86_64-590.48.01-2.fc44.x86_64
leigh@leigh-pc:~$ inxi -GSx
System:
  Host: leigh-pc Kernel: 6.19.0-59.fc44.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 16.0.1
  Console: pty pts/1 Distro: Fedora Linux 44 (Cinnamon Prerelease)
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA107 [GeForce RTX 3050 6GB] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia v: 590.48.01
    arch: Ampere bus-ID: 01:00.0
  Display: unspecified server: X.org v: 1.21.1.21 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9 driver: X:
    loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting,nouveau gpu: nv_platform,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch tty: 123x24
    resolution: 3840x2160
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nvidia,swrast platforms: active: gbm,surfaceless,device
    inactive: wayland,x11,device-1
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 25.3.4 note: console (EGL sourced)
    renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050/PCIe/SSE2, llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.8 256 bits)
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.328 drivers: nvidia,llvmpipe surfaces: N/A devices: 2
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo gpu: lact, nvidia-settings, nvidia-smi
    wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
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That looks even better.

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So, installing this newer package from koji fixed it.

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For some reason, I have on Fedora 44 now installed “akmod-nvidia-580xx-580.126.09-3.fc45.x86_64“ seems like RPMFusion repos are broken, additionally, these drivers are unable to be build again on kernel 6.19.2

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So, for some reason, after an upgrade, it gets fc45 (rawhide) drivers instead. Removing and intalling drivers again fixed it.