So about a month ago, I did a fresh install of Fedora 41 (AFTER it was a production release), setup akmods for secureboot with a Nvidia Geforce 3070, and everything worked PERFECTLY (nvidia x server settings detected the GPU and telemetry etc OK, and confirmed secureboot was indeed enabled in user mode).
After a few weeks of running “dnf upgrade” daily, the nvidia driver just stopped loading (literally all I did was dnf upgrade, no tweaks, just using Cinnamon Desktop for daily work tasks etc).
Other important notes…
I enabled a LUKS encrypted installation in anaconda during setup (on a dedicated NVME drive [NO Win11 dual boot, just Fedora 41]).
I enabled rpmfusion repos, and installed nvidia via CLI with:
sudo dnf install -y --skip-broken --skip-unavailable akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686
I DISABLED splash boot screen (to view startup / shutdown verbosely) in:
/etc/default/grub
I installed via my automated script (on github):
FYI, I can file the bugzilla report, IF we can confirm this is a bug?
“sudo dmesg” gives me this output, saying Nouveau is already loaded, so it cannot load the nvidia drivers (it does NOT matter if I DISABLE SECUREBOOT, it’s still the same message):
[ 705.011340] NVRM: No NVIDIA devices probed.
[ 705.011570] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered Nvlink Core, major device number 510
[ 706.696425] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 510
[ 706.696437] NVRM: GPU 0000:07:00.0 is already bound to nouveau.
[ 706.697971] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine was not called for 1 device(s).
[ 706.697974] NVRM: This can occur when another driver was loaded and
NVRM: obtained ownership of the NVIDIA device(s).
[ 706.697976] 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.
[ 706.697979] NVRM: No NVIDIA devices probed.
[ 706.698257] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered Nvlink Core, major device number 510