Nvidia DRIVER problems not istalled or working properly

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Hello fellow fedora users as you can see im a noob and im trying to find help regarding the issue with my nvidia drivers here im running fedora 40 workstation on wayland and my DE is gnome kernel version:Linux 6.10.7-cb2.0.fc40.x86_64 and for some reason i can only view some setting as viewed below:

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furthermore for some reason even though i installed the drivers using this guide Howto/NVIDIA - RPM Fusion my drivers are still not working and since my cpu has integrated gpu it displays this message when i type:

glxinfo | egrep “OpenGL vendor|OpenGL renderer”

OpenGL vendor string: Mesa
OpenGL renderer string: NV194

nvidia-smi output

NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running

and

lsmod | grep nvidia

doesnt give any output

modinfo -F version nvidia
560.35.03

dnf list installed *nvidia* outputs

dnf list installed *nvidia*
Installed Packages
akmod-nvidia.x86_64 3:560.35.03-1.fc40
kmod-nvidia-6.10.3-200.fc40.x86_64.x86_64 3:555.58.02-1.fc40
kmod-nvidia-6.10.4-cb1.0.fc40.x86_64.x86_64 3:555.58.02-1.fc40
kmod-nvidia-6.10.6-200.fc40.x86_64.x86_64 3:560.35.03-1.fc40
kmod-nvidia-6.10.6-cb1.0.fc40.x86_64.x86_64 3:555.58.02-1.fc40
kmod-nvidia-6.10.7-cb2.0.fc40.x86_64.x86_64 3:560.35.03-1.fc40
nvidia-gpu-firmware.noarch 20240811-2.fc40
nvidia-modprobe.x86_64 3:560.35.03-1.fc40
nvidia-persistenced.x86_64 3:560.35.03-1.fc40
nvidia-settings.x86_64 3:560.35.03-1.fc40
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 3:560.35.03-2.fc40
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda.x86_64 3:560.35.03-2.fc40
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.i686 3:560.35.03-2.fc40
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.x86_64 3:560.35.03-2.fc40
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc.x86_64 3:560.35.03-2.fc40
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 3:560.35.03-2.fc40
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 3:560.35.03-2.fc40
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power.x86_64 3:560.35.03-2.fc40

i know i probably did something wrong or missed a step but please can you help me fix this issue thank you

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Added intel

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If secure boot is enabled then you will need a secure boot signing key setup as documented in the rpmfusion docs.
Did you setup the signing key?

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Nvidia setting displays much less info with wayland than it does when using the xorg DE.

You have many kernels there that are not fedora.

kmod-nvidia-6.10.4-cb1.0.fc40.x86_64.x86_64 3:555.58.02-1.fc40
kmod-nvidia-6.10.6-cb1.0.fc40.x86_64.x86_64 3:555.58.02-1.fc40
kmod-nvidia-6.10.7-cb2.0.fc40.x86_64.x86_64 3:560.35.03-1.fc40

I am not sure why you have installed packages to provide those other kernels but we have seen several times where the non-fedora kernels cause various problems including taking up all the space in /boot and failing to allow creation of the nvidia drivers.

My suggestion is to remove the non-fedora kernels and only use fedora kernels.
(A bit of a search seems that those kernels may be from Nobara, which we do not support)

When using secure boot you must enroll the signing key into bios as shown in the file /usr/share/doc/akmods/README.secureboot. Without that the kernel is unable to load the nvidia drivers.

You can often see the issue with space by using df -h and looking at the use% value for the /boot file system. When that fills up it causes severe problems. Anything over 90% is about to become critical since one of the issues is failure to update kernels.

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I’m interested in your problem coz i can’t get the drivers to work in Fedora Sway Spin

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@computersavvy thank you for the reply i am currently not using secure boot because i am using OPEN Raze for my keyboard so i dont think that is the issue but do you think i should sign the key either way