Fedora NVIDIA Driver Installation on Hybrid AMD + RTX 3050 Laptop

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Hello, guys! I’m worried about breaking my Fedora 42 setup while installing NVIDIA drivers on ASUS ROG Strix G513IC-EB73, need some advice.

I’m new to Fedora (just installed Workstation 42 on my ASUS ROG Strix G513IC-EB73 laptop) and running GNOME (ofc). The hardware is an AMD Ryzen CPU with integrated Radeon graphics and a discrete NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 GPU. The GPU is detected fine (lspci | grep -i nvidia shows it), but nvidia-smi isn’t available, it’s expected cuz I did not install the proprietary drivers yet.

I’d like to get the NVIDIA GPU working properly for offloading (gaming or CUDA tasks, like AI etc.) via PRIME, but I’m hesitant cuz I’ve read about potential issues like black screens, boot loops, or kernel conflicts on hybrid setups and many more…

Could this install possibly lead to unbootable states, (Secure Boot is off btw). What’s the worst scenario, and how recoverable is it?

I was about to run:

sudo dnf install kernel-devel kernel-headers gcc make dkms acpid libglvnd-glx libglvnd-opengl libglvnd-devel pkgconfig
sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf makecache
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda

If it goes wrong, is it possible to rollback safely? Also, once installed, how can I test if it’s working properly?

I’d be really grateful if someone has the time to answer some of my questions, (I’m a bit paranoid, already broke my shell once, when trying to develop an extension, lol, do not want to deal with grub, or other scary/tricky things, heh).

Thanks!

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Two of those commands that you listed should be all that are needed IF you are not using secure boot.
The first command you list is not required since anything that is needed for support of the driver installation will be pulled in as a dependency when installing akmod-nvidia.

  1. sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
    Note that this should not be required if you have enabled the 3rd party repos during the initial setup done with first boot after installing the OS. That would have enabled the rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver repo and can be verified with dnf repolist

  2. sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda

  3. Wait for a few minutes after completing step 2 before rebooting.

IF you are using secureboot then you should do the following before performing the steps above.

  1. sudo dnf install akmods
  2. reboot
  3. run the steps shown in the file /usr/share/doc/akmods/README.secureboot.

Performing these steps first should ensure that the key is enrolled into bios so that when the nvidia driver is installed it will be signed and can be loaded.

After the driver installation and the reboot you should be able to confirm the driver is installed and loaded with lsmod | grep nvidia and also with nvidia-smi

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