I have an Dell XPS 15 9560 with an NVIDIA 1050 GT with 4 GB card. How do I install the NVIDIA drivers for it. I tried to install the drivers, but they were version 595 and did not work, after much investigation I discovered that the 595 drivers do not support my card. Are there drivers in Fedora that support my video card or is my video card not supported by Linux?
The 580 drivers support your card and should be available in RPMFusion for Fedora 44.
Try this:
- Uninstall the 595 drivers:
sudo dnf remove "*nvidia*" -x nvidia-gpu-firmware - Install the 580 drivers:
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia-580xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-580xx-cuda - Wait for 5 minutes and reboot
Do I use that command exactly including the little xx’s after 580xx or do I need to include the full version number?
Literally including the xx - that’s part of the package names.
Thank You!
Please note, the 580.142 driver has a bug with kde wayland sessions on 10x0 GPUs.
Either use a kde x11 session or wait for a patched driver release.
Do you have a link to the bug report for the Nvidiva bug on Wayland? I’m curious about it.
IIrc the issue is triggered in a dual screen ( laptop + ext monitor) configuraion.
So if I don’t use an external monitor with my laptop I should be fine then?
My understanding is that bug is related to certain laptops that have both nvidia and intel GPUs and when using dual screen. It apparently is not directly related to the 10xx series GPUs.
rpmfusion only has the 580.142 driver in the 580xx series for f44.
There should be no issues as long as you do not use dual screens.
You can also go back to the 580.126.18 driver from f43 if you choose, but then would need to ensure that the 595 driver is not installed when you perform upgrades. Using the 580xx driver prevents installing the 595 driver as an upgrade.
When I get home tonight, I’ll install the 580xx driver as I won’t use dual screen and I’ll wait for a patched driver to come out before using a dual screen. Thanks everybody for the reply’s, you’ve all been very helpful.
the patched driver is not yet available in rpmfusion*updates-testing
I’m getting an error trying to install the 580 NVIDIA drivers. I did run sudo dnf upgrade --refresh
I’m on Fedora KDE 44
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia-580xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-580xx-cuda
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
No match for argument: akmod-nvidia-580xx
No match for argument: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-580xx-cuda
You can try to add to command line:
--skip-unavailable to skip unavailable packages
That version has only been in the rpmfusion repo for f44 and only in the rpmfusion-free repo
I just checked and apparently the 580xx packages have been (at least temporarily) removed from rpmfusion. They were there with the 580.142 driver version which had certain bugs but apparently have been fully removed at present.
You should be able to substitute the current 580.126.18 driver from f43 with sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda --releasever=43
Note that after doing this you will have to remain vigilant and avoid updating the 580 driver to the 595 version when doing other upgrades.
The 580xx drivers should be made available soon by rpmfusion.
Ok, thanks for the reply, that explains a lot.
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The legacy drivers like the 580xx are not available in the default rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver repository.
The unpatched driver has been available since mid March in repo rpmfusion-nonfree. The patched kernel driver should be available in repo rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.
The580xx driver is now available in rpmfusion-nonfree
$ dnf list akmod-nvidia-580xx --enablerepo *-testing --releasever=44
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Available packages
akmod-nvidia-580xx.x86_64 3:580.142-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree
muscle memory… ofc rpmfusion-nonfree
r*-n*-updates is empty
It was just relocated in the last few days.