Nvidia driver issue on f44

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I know we are a couple of months later but after having a workstation working more or less flawlessly this problem is creeping up on F44 and I only looked in the dmesg because of frequent freezes of the pc wirt a weird pattern on screen. This happens seemingly randomly. The drivers come from rpmfusion

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You are posting with a different problem so I will move this to a new topic.

Which nvidia GPU is installed? If it is one of the Pascal or Maxwell chipsets (the 10xx series and older) then the 595 nvidia driver available with f44 does not support that GPU. If it is newer ( 16xx series or newer) then the 595 driver should support it.

Please show us the result of dnf list --installed \*nvidia\* and inxi -Fzxx as preformatted text. Also show modinfo -l nvidia && modinfo -F version nvidia

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I tried this:

sudo dnf update -y # and reboot if you are not on the latest kernel
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia # rhel/centos users can use kmod-nvidia instead
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda #optional for cuda/nvdec/nvenc support

It might have fixed this. Do I understand correctly that the graphic drivers are not part of dnf up?

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No, that’s not correct. If you have the RPMFusion repos enabled, then Nvidia drivers work like any other package here. dnf up will apply available updates for packages that are already installed, but won’t install something that isn’t already installed (unless a package being upgraded has a new dependency).

If you had the drivers already installed, then dnf update should have updated them, and dnf install should have been a no-op.

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I did it anyway and all hangs went away. So where dnf up did not solve the problem. Something must have happend when doing the installs.

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Instead of guessing, can you look at the dnf history ?

For example:

dnf history list --contains-pkgs=akmod-nvidia
  ID Command line                                             Date and time       Action(s) Altered
SOME_ID dnf install akmod-nvidia                              [...]
[...]

Then the details with:

dnf history info SOME_ID
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It would appear that you did not have that package installed. If not already installed the dnf up would do nothing for that particular package and dnf install would be able to install it.

If the package were already installed then exactly the opposite would occur as stated by @pg-tips above.

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But if I do an update it should tell so shouldn´t it?

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If not already installed an update will not install it for you. It only updates the packages that are already there.

Have you checked the dnf history as suggested above to see when/if the packages were installed? Your three commands posted above appear to show you did both an update and an installation.