A friend gave me a laptop to fix an issue with the NVIDIA GF117M video driver on Fedora 41. I tried installing the driver using akmod, and while the installation seems to complete, the driver doesn’t work properly. I get the error “NVIDIA module kernel error, fallback nvmeu”. I’m aware that NVIDIA legacy drivers (version 390) are no longer officially supported on Fedora Linux in general, but he still wants me to install this driver. The laptop is running Fedora 41.
Laptop has secure boot enabled or not
It has no secure boot at all
The latest Nvidia driver from akmod might not work
I tried to install with Legacy GeForce 400/500
Supported on current stable Xorg server release. EOL by NVIDIA at the end of 2022. Still available on “best effort basis” (newer kernel may break, will be discontinued at anytime if not actively maintained)
This driver is suitable for any NVIDIA Fermi GPU found between 2010 and 2012
dnf update -y
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-390xx akmod-nvidia-390xx
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-390xx-cuda #optional for cuda up to 9.2 support
/!\ After the RPM transaction ends, please remember to wait until the kmod has been built. This can take up to 5 minutes on some systems
and I can’t install it, it says it’s not in the repositories
I guess the support period is over if not on repository anymore
Thateqns need to stay on nouveau
And what can I do to install it. There is nothing done by the community so that I can install it on feodra 41 or a Linux distribution that will still support this Nvidia driver
Nouveau is default install on fedora already no need to do anything just remove all installed Nvidia proprietary drivers
This open source driver sometimes works lags. Can you tell me which uninstall commands to uninstall, which proprietary Nvidia drivers to uninstall
Firstly give us rpm -qa | grep nvidia secondly you have to know that workstation fedora 41 by default install wayland and xorg you need to install manually like sudo dnf install gnome-session-xsession
Surely there is no community that I can use the proprietary driver for Nvidia GF117M e feodra 41?
Can I make the Nvidia open source driver run better?
The NVIDIA published “open source” nvidia driver is only for new hardware.
Or did you mean the nouveau driver?
to nouveau
As far as I know if you install that driver it is not supported using wayland .You can check about installing xorg in Fedora 41 but wayland is the default in Fedora now.
Hi Raul,
You can download and build the driver right from the Nvidia site. The driver you need is
390.157
This is directly for that GPU from nvidia.
The 340xx driver is not available from rpmfusion for fedora 41 since the kernels will no longer support that older driver. This information came directly from one of the rpmfusion maintainers.
An additional issue with the nvidia drivers version 470 and older is that none of them support wayland so you would be limited to using xorg and that has been removed from a default installation of fedora workstation with the release of fedora 40. It can be enabled by installing a couple packages but I think the default use of nouveau is best for that older system.
Thus a machine with the GF117M gpu is unable to install or use the nvidia drivers with fedora 41.
You could install fedora 40 (which still has support for about 6 months, then when it goes EOL the 340xx driver would no longer be usable
To cleanly remove all nvidia drivers the command sudo dnf remove \*nvidia\* --exclude nvidia-gpu-firmware works.
The 340xx driver can be installed for the 100M series of GPUs on f40 following the instructions at Howto/NVIDIA - RPM Fusion
Hi Raul,
Per this cross-reference:
… That GPU (GF117e) is also used in the 600 series GForce cards. So the latest available production/certified Nvidia drivers from Nvidia via
are 390.157 …
That may or may not be accurate.
To verify that the 390 driver will work on that device we would need the device ID which can be gotten by using
lspci -nnk | grep -A3 VGA
If it works by installing the 390xx drivers from rpmfusion that is great. If the driver fails to load then the fallback to the 340xx driver should work.
The problem appears to be that nvidia.com claims to need the 340 driver for the GF117M gpu but fedora 41 does not support that old driver. With fedora 41 the drivers are 390 or newer.
$ dnf list akmod-nvidia-340xx akmod-nvidia-390xx --releasever=40
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Available packages
akmod-nvidia-340xx.x86_64 1:340.108-32.fc40 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
akmod-nvidia-390xx.x86_64 3:390.157-12.fc40 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
$ dnf list akmod-nvidia-340xx akmod-nvidia-390xx
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Available packages
akmod-nvidia-390xx.x86_64 3:390.157-12.fc41 rpmfusion-nonfree
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