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 …

[image] Nathaniel Homier: When Fedora 44 starts, the boot screen briefly displays a messages saying that the NVIDIA kernel module is missing and it is falling back to the noveu driver. Are you using Secure Boot? If so, there are additional steps to follow in order to enrol the signing key .

[image] P G: 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 reboo Do I use that command exactly including the little xx’s after 580xx or do I need …

Literally including the xx - that’s part of the package names.

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.

[image] Fedora 43 KDE 6.19.9-200/ Boot freeze after nvidia driver updates Ask Fedora These look like they could be the same problem. Hopefully so, since the person posting in the Nvidia forum managed to successfully apply a patch (the same one that the Cachy u…

So if I don’t use an external monitor with my laptop I should be fine then?

[image] Mark: Please note, the 580.142 driver has a bug with kde wayland sessions on 10x0 GPUs. 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. rpmfusio…

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 upgr…

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.

I have an Nvidia 1050 GT card with 4GB in a Dell laptop, how do I install the driver for it on Fedora KDE 44?

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anotheruser (Mark) April 16, 2026, 4:28pm 9

IIrc the issue is triggered in a dual screen ( laptop + ext monitor) configuraion.

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I have an Nvidia 1050 GT card with 4GB in a Dell laptop, how do I install the driver for it on Fedora KDE 44?

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