crimxane
July 10, 2024, 1:37pm
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I have a laptop with optimus technology. (intel iGPU, NVIDIA eGPU)
I messed something up while installing nvidia drivers manually. (runlevel3)
and yeah. rebooting into Fedora 40 (KDE), I got the boot message that it failed to load the NVIDIA drivers, reverting to noveau.
I’m trying to clean install NVIDIA drivers from scratch. with deleting any old traces.
will the following commands run well / be enough to get the job done?
rm -f /usr/lib{,64}/libGL.so.* /usr/lib{,64}/libEGL.so.*
***using Fedora 40 KDE Wayland (latest kernel)
gnwiii
July 10, 2024, 1:58pm
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You should mention what instructions you used to install Nvidia drivers – there are several sites that target Fedora specifically and will provide a configuration that works properly for kernel updates. Do you require secure boot? If your Nvidia card doesn’t support Wayland, can you live with Xorg (I have an older system that needs nouveau for Wayland, but I also install the Nvidia driver and it is not hard to switch to the Nvidia driver when I need Xorg).
If you installed the files you want to remove manually outside the packaging system then deleting them should be OK, but don’t mess with files installed from rpm packages. There are dnf options to clean up problems with installed packages.
It is good practice to include the output from running inxi -Fzxx in a terminal so we can see details of your hardware. There can be issues with vendor UEFI support, so it is not enough to see the graphics hardware details. This will make it possible for others with similar hardware to find this topic with a web search.
Finally, it is good practice to ensure that both Fedora packages and vendor firmware are fully updated so you aren’t chasing a solved problem.
crimxane
July 10, 2024, 2:19pm
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I used If not True then False’s method. Guide:
didn’t know that I had the other option of installing via rpmfusion repository.
I turned off secure boot. (tried to install from rpmfusion before the manual method)
I don’t know where to check if my card supports wayland. but im using a RTX 3060
Have to admit I only learnt about X11 after getting Wayland. which I confused for Plasma KDE.
how do I include the output from the inxi? just cat?
I always dnf update and dnf update --refresh before installing anything
thanks for your time
Welcome to
People should stop trying to install the INTTF method. It always breaks.
NVIDIA Optimus is a technology that allows an Intel integrated GPU and discrete NVIDIA GPU to be built into and accessed by a laptop.Optimus Howto .
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA#Current_GeForce.2FQuadro.2FTesla
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Secure%20Boot
Please post the output of inxi -Fzxx for us incase we need to troubleshoot issues you might incur.
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crimxane
July 10, 2024, 3:32pm
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Lesson learnt. somehow was my first recommended option.
sorry to ask but can you tell me how I can go about doing that? where it can be found? can it be accessed by a command? etc…
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I learnt my HARD lesson during the Fedora 21-24 days. . . Never again !
Anyway :
So from the terminal paste this command inxi -Fzxx , if it is not installed you will be promted to do so.
Then paste your info here in </> preformatted text:
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crimxane
July 10, 2024, 4:42pm
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System:
Kernel: 6.9.7-200.fc40.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 2.41-37.fc40
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.1.1 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
Distro: Fedora Linux 40 (KDE Plasma)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: Victus by HP Laptop 16-d0xxx v: N/A
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: HP model: 88F8 v: 88.58 serial: <superuser required>
part-nu: 47N76EA#ABV UEFI: AMI v: F.25 date: 10/04/2023
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 18.4 Wh (37.0%) condition: 49.7/70.1 Wh (70.9%)
volts: 16.2 min: 15.4 model: HP Primary serial: <filter> status: charging
Device-1: sony_controller_battery_44:89:cd:f5:ac:9f model: N/A serial: N/A
charge: N/A status: charging
CPU:
Info: 8-core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-11800H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Tiger Lake rev: 1 cache: L1: 640 KiB L2: 10 MiB L3: 24 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1351 high: 4118 min/max: 800/4600 cores: 1: 800 2: 4118
3: 800 4: 1337 5: 800 6: 800 7: 801 8: 800 9: 800 10: 983 11: 800 12: 3243
13: 793 14: 800 15: 801 16: 3155 bogomips: 73728
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-12.1 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1
bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a60
Device-2: NVIDIA GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q]
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nvidia v: 555.58.02 arch: Ampere ports:
active: none empty: DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 0000:01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2520
Device-3: Quanta HP Wide Vision HD Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-6:5 chip-ID: 0408:5425
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.0
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: N/A display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 size: N/A
API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: iris
device: 3 drv: swrast surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland: drv: iris x11:
drv: iris inactive: gbm,device-2
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.1.2 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (TGL GT1)
device-ID: 8086:9a60 display-ID: :0.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.283 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 0
type: integrated-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 8086:9a60 device: 1
type: discrete-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:2520 device: 2 type: cpu
driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-H HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:43c8
Device-2: NVIDIA GA106 High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0000:01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228e
API: ALSA v: k6.9.7-200.fc40.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 0000:00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:43f0
IF: wlo1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000
bus-ID: 0000:02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-14:6 chip-ID: 8087:0026
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2 lmp-v: 11
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller driver: vmd
v: 0.6 bus-ID: 0000:00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a0b
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 23.33 GiB (2.4%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVL21T0HCLR-00BH1
size: 953.87 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 50.9 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 118.97 GiB used: 22.81 GiB (19.2%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p7
ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 438.5 MiB (45.0%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 256 MiB used: 100.8 MiB (39.4%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-4: /home size: 118.97 GiB used: 22.81 GiB (19.2%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p7
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 15.25 GiB used: 4.27 GiB (28.0%)
Processes: 591 Power: uptime: 18m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 255
target: graphical (5) default: graphical
Packages: pm: flatpak pkgs: 10 Compilers: gcc: 14.1.1 Shell: Bash
v: 5.2.26 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.34
crimxane
July 10, 2024, 4:44pm
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also, my sound-card has something wrong I believe. the right headphone is lower by around 15%
CRimXane:
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-12.1 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1
bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a60
Device-2: NVIDIA GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q]
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nvidia v: 555.58.02 arch: Ampere ports:
active: none empty: DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 0000:01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2520
Let us know where in the process you are on removing the Nvidia drivers that you got from the site, and if you have done the steps from RPMFusion ?
I’ve seen quirky activity from HP machines, but we’ll deal with that later.
crimxane
July 10, 2024, 4:53pm
10
firstly, I ran dnf remove xorg-x11-drv-nvidia\*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib{,64}/libGL.so.* /usr/lib{,64}/libEGL.so.*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib{,64}/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
sudo dnf reinstall xorg-x11-server-Xorg mesa-libGL mesa-libEGL libglvnd\*
sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.saved
executed, no return
after that, I reinstalled them using:sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia
If you installed the .run file, that should had been enough.
sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-XXX.xx.run --uninstall
So you do have the RPMFusion repo active?
Can you post the results of:
dnf list installed \*nvidia\*
crimxane
July 10, 2024, 5:09pm
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yes. RPMFusion repo is active
Installed Packages
akmod-nvidia.x86_64 3:555.58.02-1.fc40 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
kmod-nvidia-6.9.7-200.fc40.x86_64.x86_64 3:555.58.02-1.fc40 @@commandline
nvidia-modprobe.x86_64 3:555.58.02-1.fc40 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
nvidia-settings.x86_64 3:555.58.02-1.fc40 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 3:555.58.02-1.fc40 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.x86_64 3:555.58.02-1.fc40 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc.x86_64 3:555.58.02-1.fc40 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 3:555.58.02-1.fc40 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 3:555.58.02-1.fc40 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power.x86_64 3:555.58.02-1.fc40 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
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I think you are missing the dnf install nvidia-gpu-firmware,
Also to note,
After installing the RPMFusion, you waited the 5mins after install and then rebooted the machine?
After installing the firmware, please reboot.
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crimxane
July 10, 2024, 5:13pm
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RPMFusion has been installed for 3 days now so yes nvidia-gpu-firmware.noarch 20240610-1.fc40 @updates
rebooting…
edit: also, is there supposed to be a NVIDIA application or something that installs with the drivers?
the only NVIDIA application i have is : “NVIDIA X server settings”
gnwiii
July 10, 2024, 7:17pm
15
Some sites do “search engine optimzation” to attract viewers. They often use content copied from others sites without adequate testing or keeping up with required changes.
Fedora uses very new kernels and associated supporting libraries and tools, so it is not unusual for packages that work for other distributions need some tweaks for Fedora. It is best to stick with Fedora repositories and ask here if you need some thing that has not been packaged. When you encounter problems with a Fedora package there are more users with the same software so a better chance that someone can help with your problem.
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CRimXane:
edit: also, is there supposed to be a NVIDIA application or something that installs with the drivers?
the only NVIDIA application i have is : “NVIDIA X server settings”
I don’t have one, and I am on a laptop with a 3050TI mobile. I think it’s dependant on the card. If you are on Xorg there is an application though.
Can you try sudo akmods --force ? and wait till it’s done before you reboot the computer. ~5mins
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crimxane
July 10, 2024, 8:32pm
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returns Checking kmods exist for 6.9.7-200.fc40.x86_64 [ OK ]
crimxane
July 10, 2024, 8:39pm
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sorry to extend the thread for so long,
my system has startups
curious about how to manage startup options for these applications.
they don’t show up in the “autostart” menu in settings
It’s no problem at all ! If you don’t have a solution, please feel free to ask.
CRimXane:
my system has startups
curious about how to manage startup options for these applications.
they don’t show up in the “autostart” menu in settings
I’m not on KDE, so I cannot help here with this. There surely will be someone to jump in and help with that.
I guess it’s a good time to ask what does nvidia-smi return in the Terminal ? Can you paste it here? Maybe it’s working properly?
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crimxane
July 10, 2024, 8:45pm
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it used to return stuff. before the drivers stopped working after updating the kernel. now it returns this.
bash: nvidia-smi: command not found...
Packages providing this file are:
'xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-cuda'
'xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-390xx-cuda'
'xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-cuda'
'xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda'
