NVIDA 340* Fedora 31

[orriginal (AngusO)]

Brand New install of Fedora 31, Did dnf update and then followed instructions from
/Howto/NVIDIA#Legacy_GeForce_8.2F9.2F200.2F300

 Workaround for keeping 340xx driver on newer f31+.

sudo dnf copr enable kwizart/kernel-longterm-4.19  
sido dnf install akmods gcc kernel-longterm kernel-longterm-devel 
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx akmod-nvidia-340xx --releasever=30

The first two dnf intructions worked well but the 3rd fails with

Is this ok [y/N]: y
Key imported successfully
warning: /var/cache/dnf/rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-5df6142a4a60155a/packages/akmod-nvidia-340xx-340.107-8.fc30.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 1d14a795: NOKEY
RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Nonfree - Updates                                           0.0  B/s |   0  B     00:00    
Curl error (37): Couldn't read a file:// file for file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-30 [Couldn't open file /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-30]
The downloaded packages were saved in cache until the next successful transaction.
You can remove cached packages by executing 'dnf clean packages'.

I have run dnf update again but returns with no change

Help always gratefully recieved
Thanks in advance

[xtym (Jorge Rodriguez)]

Hi @orriginal

Try one of the this 2 options, I hope it can help you.

A) Adding manually the key

1-Download from rpm fusion the key that is being demanded so called : RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-30

Link to download
https://rpmfusion.org/keys
https://rpmfusion.org/keys?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-31

Download the file called “RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-30”

2- Copy the file to the path of the keys that was indicated : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/

sudo cp /<path of folder where you did download file>/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-30 /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-30

Now the key get added where it was demanded.

3-Try install the package again.

sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx akmod-nvidia-340xx --releasever=30

B) In the other hand you can try install without do a check of keys with the option --nogpgcheck :

sudo dnf --nogpgcheck install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx akmod-nvidia-340xx --releasever=30

Regards.

[orriginal (AngusO)]

THANK YOU - I followed your excellent instruction and it all appears to have worked after I followed the first set od instructions.

I did notice, during installation / Downgrading, some errors which I have listed below for your information - But as I said, it appears to have worked fine and the NVidia sever is not shown and works

the listed errors were, in order of appearance
1 )

ls: cannot access '/boot/vmlinuz-.fc31.x86_64': No such file or directory

2 )

 Running scriptlet: abrt-addon-ccpp-2.13.0-1.fc31.x86_64                                              90/151

Failed to try-restart abrt-ccpp.service: Unit abrt-ccpp.service not found.

3 )

Warning: The unit file, source configuration file or drop-ins of dnf-makecache.timer changed on disk. Run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload units.

[orriginal (AngusO)]

SADLY, having said it all worked, when I did a Hard reboot…Nothing worked and I could not even get tot he log in screen…and not even the RESCUE option on the boot option screen worked…SO… Here I am , booted up from the USB, about to install again, for the 3rd time…
Hopefully it’ll work this time

[xtym (Jorge Rodriguez)]

@orriginal

the listed errors were, in order of appearance
1 )

ls: cannot access '/boot/vmlinuz- .fc31.x86_64 ': No such file or directory

This error is really serious (the others is about ABRT you can try reload it run the command indicate sudo systemctl daemon-reload) because it looks like your kernel get damage in someway than i don’t know. If you do see this error after you did reinstall again before you reboot try reinstall the kernel/s

sudo dnf reinstall kernel*

Try reinstall kernel before you do reboot if you can not repair the image of your kernel it will happen again. Maybe someone can help a bit more about how recover the kernel my first idea is just reinstall it before a reboot.

Edit: It also looks like that the kernel LTS than you did install present problems actually

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/kwizart/kernel-longterm-4.19/build/1091147/

So you would wait until his build be right.

Regards.