I was wondering how to report a broken dependency(?) in the rpmfusion/xorg third party drivers for Nvidia
The last kernel update now does not support 21:9 monitors.
It has been working perfectly for the last 2-3 years, but broke on the latest update (updates weekly or twice a week.)
Faultfinding and attempts to repair it are detailed here:
Maximum now is 16:9 resolution, 1920 x 1080p . (As I’m on a deadline, I am just working with it now, knowing it will likely be resolved unless it only affects this machine.)
Any help you could provide or troubleshooting guidance is greatly appreciated.
Perhaps I’m missing some subtlety in what you’re trying to do, but I can use 21:9 without any issues. I’m running this Dell widescreen monitor at 3340 by 1440 on F43 KDE, with kernel 6.17.7-300.fc43.x86_64 and the following drivers. No issues that I’m aware of.
NVIDIA-SMI 580.95.05 Driver Version: 580.95.05 CUDA Version: 13.0
I’m dealing with the same thing. After a reboot, my screen resolution plummeted and I can’t figure out how to bring it back. Before: 2560x1440. After: 1920x1080. I tried a LiveUSB of another distro to confirm that it’s not hardware. I tried forcing it with xrandr and that failed, something about unsupported resolution.
Asked around a little elsewhere. Someone suggested something about HDMI’s EDID thing. I don’t know a thing about that, tbh, but here’s the results. I guess it’s relevant, I noticed that it includes all the resolutions listed in the GUI settings but not all the higher ones the monitor should support.
I’ve got the deadline to meet, but was going to revert to the official drivers in a week, Steve, if an upgrade didn’t patch it. Looks as though you have installed the official Nvidia drivers, correct??
Is this a bug to report? - don’t know the correct place to report with apologies.
There was an updated driver version (580.105.03) that had several reported issues, including that it caused steam to crash for me. I initially downgraded back to the 580.95.05 version then this week an updated driver (version 580.105.08) was released on rpmfusion and that solved the steam issue for me.
Sounds good, but which package did you mean?
I’m looking at dnf list --installed | grep nvidia and don’t see 580.105.03 anywhere, but i do have a few on 580.105.08-1.
I figured out how to roll back the nvidia stuff, I didn’t realize that they had to all roll back together. Hence Jeff not mentioning which specific package.
tbh I wonder why they’re not just one big package if that’s such a big deal but that’s out of scope here.
I had weird issues preventing me from simply doing the rollback, some error blocked things. But it worked if I removed kmod-nvidia temporarily.
dnf list --installed --showduplicates | grep nvidia. Find all the packages with the same version as kmod-nvidia, make them a comma separated list wrapped in curly brackets. Exclude kmod. {akmod-nvidia,nvidia-modprobe} etc.
dnf remove kmod-nvidia (“Metapackage which tracks in nvidia kernel module for newest kernel”)
dnf rollback {nv...} every package name from that list.
dnf install kmod-nvidia-3:570... … copy the last good version number from the rollback.
dnf versionlock exclude {nv...}-3:580.105.08-1.fc42. This will skip this one version. Add kmod back to the list here.
I just performed, as a test to see the current status of the latest Nvidia driver, an update on my F43 KDE edition, including the Nvidia driver 580.105.08 and after the reboot my external monitor (Philips Evnia connected through HDMI) dit not show a picture, it was black all the time. After restoring the latest Timeshift backup all is wel and again I am using the 580.95.05 driver. So, at least for me, something is still wrong with the 580.105.08 driver.
Operating System: Fedora Linux 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
Qt Version: 6.10.0
Kernel Version: 6.17.7-300.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 6800H with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (14,8 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon 680M
Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 82RG
System Version: Legion 5 Pro 16ARH7H
I do indeed have the official NV drivers installed although I’ve not moved off the 580.95 release yet, and it seems 105 is indeed somewhat flaky. I’ve never used nouveau so I have nothing to compare against - in fact I don’t even include the nouveau drivers in initram.
However, multiple reboots using these drivers and this kernel and I’ve never had any resolution issues at all. My kit is plugged in via mDP on the monitor with an RTX 2080 driving it, if that makes any difference.
Seems like sitting on 580.95 for a while is prudent and a downgrade for you should clean things up.
When my system upgraded from the 580.95.05 driver to the 580.105.03 driver it caused steam to crash.
I downgraded back to the 580.95.05 driver with first removing the affected kmod-nvidia package sudo dnf remove kmod-nvidia-6.17.7-300.fc43.x86_64
Following that I ensured that I had the rpmfusion-nonfree repo enabled then was able to downgrade to the 580.95.05 version with the command sudo dnf downgrade \*nvidia\* --exclude kmod-nvidia* --exclude nvidia-gpu-firmware --allowerasing which pulled the 580.95 version from rpmfusion-nonfree and removed the 580.105 version which had been installed from the rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-drivers repo.
I have since upgraded to the 580.105.08 driver and steam still works.
I also do not see the problem with resolution when using a 4k TV as monitor (3840x2160 resolution) which is 16x9 format. The bug reported here appears to be related to the ultra-wide monitors and not those with higher resolution but still in the 16x9 format.
