Fedora doesn't find my GPU anymore, didn't have any issues before

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Hello guys, I have a laptop with dual GPU, so integrated and discreet nvidia one. Just yesterday, I didn’t have any issues at all, I didn’t do anything that could break anything either. But I have just opened my laptop and my dGPU isn’t recognised anymore. I checked and the drivers are correctly installed. Could anyone please tell me what I could do? this is the output of nvidia-smi:

NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

Nvtop doesn’t see the GPU either. All the nvidia applications like nvidia-settings work, they open but don’t see my GPU. Any help will be much appreciated.

###Edit:
I tried some things out, and this issue is in the kernel version 6.13.
I switched back to 6.12.15 and now it works like before. Should I report this isssue, wait for the next update and just stay in 6.12 for now?
Also, when I boot in the 6.13 kernel, the boot messages show me some errors about nvidia, and fallbacks or something. And my GPU makes a lot of noise during boot of this newest kernel.
Anyways, how do I know when I should switch back to the newest kernel? And where should I report this issue so that the developpers are informed of this?

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Try sudo dnf upgrade \*nvidia\* --refresh and see if it pulls in the 570 nvidia drivers. Some repos may have been slow to get those updated in the mirrors and it seems the 6.13 kernel requires the nvidia 570.86 drivers that are now available from rpmfusion.

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Hello, I got this error:

[nathanv@bongstong ~]$ sudo dnf upgrade \*nvidia\* --refresh
Updating and loading repositories:
 Fedora 41 - x86_64 - Updates                          100% |  75.8 KiB/s |  22.7 KiB |  00m00s
 google-chrome                                         100% |  19.8 KiB/s |   1.3 KiB |  00m00s
 Fedora 41 - x86_64                                    100% | 253.1 KiB/s |  26.8 KiB |  00m00s
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Free                       100% |  72.8 KiB/s |   8.9 KiB |  00m00s
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Nonfree - NVIDIA Driver    100% |  82.0 KiB/s |   9.3 KiB |  00m00s
 Fedora 41 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64              100% |  11.8 KiB/s | 989.0   B |  00m00s
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Free - Updates             100% |  77.7 KiB/s |   8.5 KiB |  00m00s
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Nonfree - Steam            100% |  82.3 KiB/s |   8.7 KiB |  00m00s
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Nonfree                    100% |  83.6 KiB/s |   9.5 KiB |  00m00s
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Nonfree - Updates          100% |  78.9 KiB/s |   9.1 KiB |  00m00s
 Copr repo for PyCharm owned by phracek                100% |  10.9 KiB/s |   2.1 KiB |  00m00s
 google-chrome                                         100% |  24.6 KiB/s |   3.2 KiB |  00m00s
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Nonfree - NVIDIA Driver    100% |  77.8 KiB/s |  18.4 KiB |  00m00s
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Free - Updates             100% | 196.8 KiB/s |  50.2 KiB |  00m00s
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Nonfree - Updates          100% | 130.3 KiB/s |  33.7 KiB |  00m00s
Repositories loaded.
Problem 1: cannot install both xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-3:570.86.16-5.fc41.x86_64 from rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-3:565.77-3.fc41.x86_64 from @System
  - installed package cuda-runtime-12-6-12.6.3-1.x86_64 requires nvidia-open-560 >= 560.35.05, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-3:565.77-3.fc41.x86_64
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 2: installed package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-3:565.77-3.fc41.x86_64 requires nvidia-modprobe(x86-64) = 3:565.77, but none of the providers can be installed
  - installed package cuda-runtime-12-6-12.6.3-1.x86_64 requires nvidia-open-560 >= 560.35.05, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both nvidia-modprobe-3:570.86.16-1.fc41.x86_64 from rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver and nvidia-modprobe-3:565.77-1.fc41.x86_64 from @System
  - installed package cuda-12-6-12.6.3-1.x86_64 requires cuda-runtime-12-6 >= 12.6.3, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package nvidia-modprobe-3:565.77-1.fc41.x86_64
  - problem with installed package
 Problem 3: installed package cuda-runtime-12-6-12.6.3-1.x86_64 requires nvidia-open-560 >= 560.35.05, but none of the providers can be installed
  - installed package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-3:565.77-3.fc41.x86_64 requires nvidia-persistenced(x86-64) = 3:565.77, but none of the providers can be installed
  - installed package cuda-12-6-12.6.3-1.x86_64 requires cuda-runtime-12-6 >= 12.6.3, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both nvidia-persistenced-3:570.86.16-1.fc41.x86_64 from rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver and nvidia-persistenced-3:565.77-1.fc41.x86_64 from @System
  - installed package cuda-12.6.3-1.x86_64 requires cuda-12-6 >= 12.6.3, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package nvidia-persistenced-3:565.77-1.fc41.x86_64
  - problem with installed package

Package                     Arch   Version                     Repository                  Size
Skipping packages with conflicts:
 nvidia-modprobe            x86_64 3:570.86.16-1.fc41          rpmfusion-nonfree-nvid  51.0 KiB
 nvidia-persistenced        x86_64 3:570.86.16-1.fc41          rpmfusion-nonfree-nvid  58.5 KiB
 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda   x86_64 3:570.86.16-5.fc41          rpmfusion-nonfree-nvid   6.2 MiB

Nothing to do.```
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What is the output of dnf list --installed \*nvidia\* \*cuda\* and dnf repolist

It appears you may have packages installed from some location other than fedora or rpmfusion since neither cuda nor cuda-runtime are included in those repos.

Conflicts abound when mixing incompatible repos.
If you cannot install from the rpmfusion repo then you may be SOL with nvidia while using the 6.13.4 kernel. It appears to only be supported with the 570 driver.

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I am 90% positive that I installed nvidia drivers using RPM documentation. Here are the outputs that you asked me:

[nathanv@bongstong ~]$ dnf list --installed \*nvidia\* \*cuda\*
Installed packages
akmod-nvidia.x86_64                        3:565.77-1.fc41    rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
cuda.x86_64                                12.6.3-1           cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-12-6.x86_64                           12.6.3-1           cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-cccl-12-6.x86_64                      12.6.77-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-command-line-tools-12-6.x86_64        12.6.3-1           cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-compiler-12-6.x86_64                  12.6.3-1           cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-crt-12-4.x86_64                       12.4.131-1         cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-crt-12-6.x86_64                       12.6.85-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-cudart-12-6.x86_64                    12.6.77-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-cudart-devel-12-6.x86_64              12.6.77-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-cuobjdump-12-6.x86_64                 12.6.77-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-cupti-12-6.x86_64                     12.6.80-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-cuxxfilt-12-6.x86_64                  12.6.77-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-demo-suite-12-6.x86_64                12.6.77-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-documentation-12-6.x86_64             12.6.77-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-driver-devel-12-6.x86_64              12.6.77-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-gdb-12-6.x86_64                       12.6.77-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-libraries-12-6.x86_64                 12.6.3-1           cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-libraries-devel-12-6.x86_64           12.6.3-1           cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-nsight-12-6.x86_64                    12.6.77-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-nsight-compute-12-6.x86_64            12.6.3-1           cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-nsight-systems-12-6.x86_64            12.6.3-1           cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-nvcc-12-4.x86_64                      12.4.131-1         @commandline
cuda-nvcc-12-6.x86_64                      12.6.85-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-nvdisasm-12-6.x86_64                  12.6.77-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-nvml-devel-12-6.x86_64                12.6.77-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-nvprof-12-6.x86_64                    12.6.80-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-nvprune-12-6.x86_64                   12.6.77-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-nvrtc-12-6.x86_64                     12.6.85-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-nvrtc-devel-12-6.x86_64               12.6.85-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-nvtx-12-6.x86_64                      12.6.77-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-nvvm-12-4.x86_64                      12.4.131-1         cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-nvvm-12-6.x86_64                      12.6.85-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-nvvp-12-6.x86_64                      12.6.80-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-opencl-12-6.x86_64                    12.6.77-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-opencl-devel-12-6.x86_64              12.6.77-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-profiler-api-12-6.x86_64              12.6.77-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-repo-fedora39-12-6-local.x86_64       12.6.3_560.35.05-1 <unknown>
cuda-runtime-12-6.x86_64                   12.6.3-1           cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-sanitizer-12-6.x86_64                 12.6.77-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-toolkit.x86_64                        12.6.3-1           cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-toolkit-12-6.x86_64                   12.6.3-1           cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-toolkit-12-6-config-common.noarch     12.6.77-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-toolkit-12-config-common.noarch       12.6.77-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-toolkit-config-common.noarch          12.6.77-1          cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-tools-12-6.x86_64                     12.6.3-1           cuda-fedora39-x86_64
cuda-visual-tools-12-6.x86_64              12.6.3-1           cuda-fedora39-x86_64
kmod-nvidia-6.12.13-200.fc41.x86_64.x86_64 3:565.77-1.fc41    @commandline
kmod-nvidia-6.12.15-200.fc41.x86_64.x86_64 3:565.77-1.fc41    @commandline
nvidia-gpu-firmware.noarch                 20241210-1.fc41    updates
nvidia-libXNVCtrl.x86_64                   3:560.35.05-1.fc39 <unknown>
nvidia-modprobe.x86_64                     3:565.77-1.fc41    rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
nvidia-persistenced.x86_64                 3:565.77-1.fc41    rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
nvidia-settings.x86_64                     3:565.77-1.fc41    rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64                 3:565.77-3.fc41    rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda.x86_64            3:565.77-3.fc41    rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.i686         3:565.77-3.fc41    rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.x86_64       3:565.77-3.fc41    rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc.x86_64         3:565.77-3.fc41    rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686              3:565.77-3.fc41    rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64            3:565.77-3.fc41    rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power.x86_64           3:565.77-3.fc41    rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver

and

[nathanv@bongstong ~]$ dnf repolist
repo id                                                                               repo name
copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:phracek:PyCharm                                        Copr repo for PyCharm owned by phracek
fedora                                                                                Fedora 41 - x86_64
fedora-cisco-openh264                                                                 Fedora 41 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64
google-chrome                                                                         google-chrome
rpmfusion-free                                                                        RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Free
rpmfusion-free-updates                                                                RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Free - Updates
rpmfusion-nonfree                                                                     RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Nonfree
rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver                                                       RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Nonfree - NVIDIA Driver
rpmfusion-nonfree-steam                                                               RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Nonfree - Steam
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                                                             RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Nonfree - Updates
updates                                                                               Fedora 41 - x86_64 - Update
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Everything in that list that begins with cuda seems to have come from the cuda-fedora39-x86_64 repo. That repo is presently not enabled on your system and is known to cause conflicts with software from rpmfusion.

Unless you have a specific reason that you need all those cuda packages I would remove them with sudo dnf remove cuda-* so all the conflicting packages are removed.

The nvidia drivers cannot be updated until the conflicts are removed.

Once the cuda packages are out of the picture then try the sudo dnf upgrade --refresh again and it should complete successfully.

The newer 6.13 kernel seems to require that the nvidia driver be version 570

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Thanks, now it works. Now I remember, the cuda repos were here because I once attempted to install nvcc. Thanks for your help.

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