I set up Vaapi before I even thought about Nvidia-Open and worked without any problems… Anyway, I still want to switch nvidia-open.
What I did so far:
nvidia-vaapi-driver
sudo dnf install meson libva-devel gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld nv-codec-headers gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel nvidia-open nvidia-vaapi-driver vdpauinfo
I setup nvidia-vaapi-driver which I probably setup this for propriety driver and it is worked.
#/etc/environment
MOZ_DISABLE_RDD_SANDBOX=1
LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia
#.zshrc
export NVD_LOG=1
export NVD_BACKEND=direct # default
I checked is nvidia-drm work via lsmod and it showed worked but I still added to boot option.
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="resume=UUID=3403e1e3-f354-40a7-bc9e-b14546ad4d3e rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1"
Setup cuda
sudo dnf config-manager addrepo --from-repofile=https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/fedora41/$(uname -m)/cuda-fedora41.repo
sudo dnf clean all
sudo dnf config-manager setopt cuda-fedora41-$(uname -m).exclude=nvidia-driver,nvidia-modprobe,nvidia-persistenced,nvidia-settings,nvidia-libXNVCtrl,nvidia-xconfig
sudo dnf install cuda-toolkit
removed akmod-nvidia
sudo dnf remove akmod-nvidia
I figure it out, nvidia-open is not the correct package:
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia-open
After akmod-nvidia-open installation, rpm build it automatically.
rpm -qa kmod-nvidia\*
kmod-nvidia-6.13.5-200.fc41.x86_64-570.86.16-3.fc41.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-6.13.6-200.fc41.x86_64-570.124.04-1.fc41.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-open-6.13.6-200.fc41.x86_64-570.124.04-1.fc41.x86_64
I reboot and looked is boot show nvidia-open but it’s show 6.13.6 without nvidia or something which this can be a normal behavior probably but I wanted to make sure.
After that I decided to remove kernel kmod-nvidia but it also removing kmod-nvidia-open too.
sudo dnf remove kmod-nvidia-6.13.6-200.fc41.x86_64-570.124.04-1.fc41.x86_64
Package Arch Version Repository Size
Removing:
kmod-nvidia-6.13.6-200.fc41.x86_64 x86_64 3:570.124.04-1.fc41 @commandline 70.2 MiB
Removing dependent packages:
akmod-nvidia-open x86_64 3:570.124.04-1.fc41 rpmfusion-nonfree-tainted 17.7 MiB
kmod-nvidia-6.13.5-200.fc41.x86_64 x86_64 3:570.86.16-3.fc41 @commandline 70.2 MiB
kmod-nvidia-open-6.13.6-200.fc41.x86_64 x86_64 3:570.124.04-1.fc41 @commandline 162.1 MiB
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda x86_64 3:570.124.04-1.fc41 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 6.2 MiB
After I learned, I need to force build akmod to remove old kernels and I tried that too but It didn’t make any differences.
sudo akmods --rebuild --force
I tried this too but seems like this even not needed with rpmfusion which it is build default.
I found that I still have nonfree-nvidia-driver repo and disabled it:
# this one didn't worked because akmod-nvidia already removed.
sudo dnf upgrade akmod-nvidia --disablerepo rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
# So, I disabled like this:
sudo dnf --disablerepo rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
Upgraded the system:
sudo dnf upgrade
Now I am thinking about to recreate all the initramfs but I don’t want to broke the boot.
# not tried yet:
sudo dracut --regenerate-all --force
Current logs
lsmod nvidia
lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia_drm 151552 10
nvidia_modeset 1826816 17 nvidia_drm
nvidia_uvm 4087808 0
nvidia 96968704 223 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
drm_ttm_helper 16384 1 nvidia_drm
video 81920 1 nvidia_modeset
i2c_nvidia_gpu 12288 0
nvidia-version
cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 570.124.04 Tue Feb 25 04:12:12 UTC 2025
GCC version: gcc version 14.2.1 20250110 (Red Hat 14.2.1-7) (GCC)
modinfo nvidia
modinfo nvidia
filename: /lib/modules/6.13.6-200.fc41.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko.xz
alias: char-major-195-*
version: 570.124.04
supported: external
license: NVIDIA
firmware: nvidia/570.124.04/gsp_tu10x.bin
firmware: nvidia/570.124.04/gsp_ga10x.bin
srcversion: 3D69C923874714B11E68DCA
alias: pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc06sc80i00*
alias: pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc02i00*
alias: pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc00i00*
depends:
name: nvidia
retpoline: Y
vermagic: 6.13.6-200.fc41.x86_64 SMP preempt mod_unload
dmesg nvidia
[ 5.972441] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[ 5.972447] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 5.972450] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[ 5.972451] nvidia: module license taints kernel.
[ 6.286232] nvidia-gpu 0000:2b:00.3: i2c timeout error e0000000
[ 6.382238] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 234
[ 6.383994] nvidia 0000:2b:00.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none
[ 6.427277] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 570.124.04 Tue Feb 25 04:12:12 UTC 2025
[ 6.467967] nvidia_uvm: module uses symbols nvUvmInterfaceDisableAccessCntr from proprietary module nvidia, inheriting taint.
[ 6.564854] nvidia-uvm: Loaded the UVM driver, major device number 510.
[ 6.597538] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 570.124.04 Tue Feb 25 03:39:21 UTC 2025
[ 6.601440] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00002b00] Loading driver
[ 7.834992] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 for 0000:2b:00.0 on minor 1
[ 7.863553] nvidia 0000:2b:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
[ 7.924537] fbcon: nvidia-drmdrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[ 7.924541] nvidia 0000:2b:00.0: [drm] fb0: nvidia-drmdrmfb frame buffer device
inxi gx
inxi -Gx
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 Rev. A] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: nvidia v: 570.124.04 arch: Turing bus-ID: 2b:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6 driver: X:
loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: N/A
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 vendor: nvidia v: 570.124.04 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060/PCIe/SSE2
API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
Info: Tools: api: glxinfo gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi x11: xdriinfo,
xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr