According to this post on reddit, the new NVIDIA driver 560 should be available to download.
But when I check for updates in gnome software, nothing shows up.
I have checked the RPM fusion websites at this address, and you can see that the new drivers are online in the updates repo:
However, I can’t see any email from the mailing list about the release of the driver into the stable channel. The only one email to this date which refers the NVIDIA 560 are this one. And it’s only about the testing branch.
What is more strange, is that I remember that on the the 2024/08/29 (I think ?), I saw the new driver available on gnome software. But I did not update right away because I wanted to see the feedback from other users before updating. After that, I did not see the update available since.
At that time, I thought that the new driver had been pulled from updating because of some issues, or maybe it was accidentally released too soon. But almost one month later and I still can’t see them.
I have already tried to remove, update and add again the RPM repository without effects.
I also tried to upgrade using dnf, but it says that everything is up to date.
Are the new driver really available or is it my laptop that has a problem ?
Or maybe the Taiwan mirror (if there is one ?) did not update ?
As you have described in your OP, the 560 driver is available in the rpmfusion-nonfree-updates repo, which you have not enabled. According to RPM Fusion’s HowTo page, the non-free repos should be added.
But I’m bit confused here, those two lines doesn’t mean I already have the non-free RPM Fusion repo enabled ? If so, how was I able to download the NVIDIA driver in the first place ? (I used the RPM Fusion Howto/NVIDIA for the installation, but the two repos in the screenshot were enabled by gnome software, so I didn’t add any additional repo before installing the drivers)
Because if I understand correctly, the NVIDIA driver can’t possibly be in the free repo since there are proprietary.
As you have described in your OP, the 560 driver is available in the rpmfusion-nonfree-updates repo, which you have not enabled.
If the rpmfusion-nonfree-updates repo was not enabled on my system, I should not have be able to download the driver 555.58.02 right ? From my understanding, I should have only be able to get the driver 550.67 which are in the release branch.
Never mind,
I just understood what you meant by enable the “non-free” only repo instead of the “rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver” which is specific to gnome software I guess.
But then, when does the repo rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver will get the new driver ? I mean, the average user is probably only going to use the repo from the gnome software GUI.
Last question, if I enable now the non-free repo, won’t this mess up my packages dependencies since I installed the NVIDIA driver from another repo ?
Normally, you should be fine with the rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver repo and receive the updates there. For some (probably well-thought) reason, the RPM Fusion team decided to keep both the 555.xx and 560.xx versions of the drivers available to the users. This was achieved by keeping the two different versions in two separate repos.
See below:
$ dnf list kmod-nvidia --showduplicates
Last metadata expiration check: 1:20:38 ago on Tue 17 Sep 2024 02:20:42 PM EEST.
Available Packages
kmod-nvidia.aarch64 3:550.67-1.fc40 rpmfusion-nonfree
kmod-nvidia.aarch64 3:555.58.02-1.fc40 rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
kmod-nvidia.aarch64 3:560.35.03-1.fc40 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
Remember that rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver only containes the packages necessary for the nvidia drivers, whereas the other (free and non-free) rpmfusion repos also contain several other packages which are not provided by Fedora.
Then, I guess I will just wait for the RPM Fusion team to decide when the driver will be stable enough to be available to everyone.
I would have just hoped that there would be more information about the current situation, because except for the bugzilla provided by Leigh Scott, I didn’t find any announcement about this (might be my google skills). So with everyone saying that the new driver was available except for my computer, I was going crazy haha.
perform an upgrade of the nvidia drivers as you already do using dnf.
It is your choice which drivers to use and since both the 555 and 560 drivers are available you can upgrade to the 560 driver. If there are no problems you are done. If problems are seen then you can downgrade back to the 555 driver.
I’m very lost on how to come back to 560. People’s explanations here do not seem to work for me and I don’t want to use Rawhide expect for this. 560 is the only stable driver I could use, 555 still has its issues, that 560 completely fixed for me.
At present the 560.35.03 driver is available in the rpmfusion-nonfree-updates repo and could be installed on f40 by enabling that repo using dnf. The rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver repo has only the previous 555 driver.
The newer driver is also available in the rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver repo for fedora 41
