GPU is already bound to nouveau after installing akmod-nvidia

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So I had to reinstall fedora after my wifi drivers broke and I didn’t get it to work by reinstalling them.
I installed Fedora 39 by using fedora everything installer, I picked i3 desktop and the i3 essentials pack or whatever it was called.

I then went to terminal straight away and added rpm fusion free and nonfree repos just like instructed in

I then installed akmod-nvidia pacakge and xorg cuda drivers and rebooted like instructed in
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

when I rebooted back in nvidia settings window shows nothing.
when I checked journalctl it says that GPU is already bound to nouveau:

Mar 22 12:28:07 fedora kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 511
Mar 22 12:28:07 fedora kernel: NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0 is already bound to nouveau.
Mar 22 12:28:07 fedora kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine was not called for 1 device(s).
Mar 22 12:28:07 fedora kernel: NVRM: This can occur when another driver was loaded and 
                               NVRM: obtained ownership of the NVIDIA device(s).
Mar 22 12:28:07 fedora kernel: NVRM: Try unloading the conflicting kernel module (and/or
                               NVRM: reconfigure your kernel without the conflicting
                               NVRM: driver(s)), then try loading the NVIDIA kernel module
                               NVRM: again.
Mar 22 12:28:07 fedora kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA devices probed.
Mar 22 12:28:07 fedora kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered Nvlink Core, major device number 511
Mar 22 12:28:09 fedora kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 511
Mar 22 12:28:09 fedora kernel: NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0 is already bound to nouveau.
Mar 22 12:28:09 fedora kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine was not called for 1 device(s).
Mar 22 12:28:09 fedora kernel: NVRM: This can occur when another driver was loaded and 
                               NVRM: obtained ownership of the NVIDIA device(s).
Mar 22 12:28:09 fedora kernel: NVRM: Try unloading the conflicting kernel module (and/or
                               NVRM: reconfigure your kernel without the conflicting
                               NVRM: driver(s)), then try loading the NVIDIA kernel module
                               NVRM: again.
Mar 22 12:28:09 fedora kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA devices probed.
Mar 22 12:28:09 fedora kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered Nvlink Core, major device number 511

here’s my complete journalctl:

I have checked my /etc/default/grub that it indeed has the line to blacklist nouveau in it:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=“rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau rhgb quiet”

I have used the same exact pc with fedora and this has never been problem before so I’m pretty lost at what is happening.

my kernel is: 6.7.9-200.fc39.x86_64

here’s everything that got installed:

dnf list installed "*nvidia*"
Installed Packages
akmod-nvidia.x86_64                         3:550.54.14-2.fc39     @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
kmod-nvidia-6.7.9-200.fc39.x86_64.x86_64    3:550.54.14-2.fc39     @@commandline             
nvidia-gpu-firmware.noarch                  20240312-1.fc39        @updates                  
nvidia-modprobe.x86_64                      3:550.54.14-1.fc39     @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
nvidia-persistenced.x86_64                  3:550.54.14-1.fc39     @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
nvidia-settings.x86_64                      3:550.54.14-1.fc39     @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64                  3:550.54.14-1.fc39     @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda.x86_64             3:550.54.14-1.fc39     @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.x86_64        3:550.54.14-1.fc39     @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc.x86_64          3:550.54.14-1.fc39     @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64             3:550.54.14-1.fc39     @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power.x86_64            3:550.54.14-1.fc39     @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates

I have gtx 980 if that info helps at all

Edit: just tried with official workstation version too (gnome). No difference at all

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The log you linked does not reveal whether secure boot is enabled or disabled so please post the output of sudo dmesg | grep -iE "secure|nouveau|nvidia" after another reboot. Also post the output of cat /etc/kernel/cmdline and cat /etc/default/grub

The same log does not reveal the expected command line options for booting with the nvidia drivers installed so the dmesg output will reveal if that may be the issue as well. Those command line options ensure that nouveau does not get loaded and that nvidia does get properly loaded.