Nvidia kernel module is missing falling back to nouveau

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My gpu is gt640, and i have a lot of problems with it almost on every distro, but on fedora i can’t do anything to set nvidia drivers, changing kernel version always helped me but not this time, i tried almoust everything i found on the internet, but all i could do is to remove “Nvidia kernel module is missing falling back to nouveau” but It still fals to nouveau, I`m on kde plasma version

You are my only hope guys :folded_hands:

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Are you following the RMFfusion nvidia driver instructions? Making sure you're not a bot!
Did you setup the secure boot signing key?

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ofc i do

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Then I’m guess the driver you installed does not suuport your GPU.
As the gt640 is an old (Kepler) GPU you likely need one of the older nvidia drvivers. This I think Making sure you're not a bot!

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I have this in output, is this ok?

Complete!
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Problem: conflicting requests
  - package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-cuda-3:470.256.02-2.fc42.x86_64 from rpmfusion-nonfree-updates requires ocl-icd(x86-64), but none of the providers can be installed
  - package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-cuda-3:470.256.02-1.fc42.x86_64 from rpmfusion-nonfree requires ocl-icd(x86-64), but none of the providers can be installed
  - problem with installed package
  - installed package OpenCL-ICD-Loader-3.0.6-2.20241023git5907ac1.fc42.x86_64 conflicts with ocl-icd provided by ocl-icd-2.3.2-8.fc42.x86_64 from fedora
  - package OpenCL-ICD-Loader-3.0.6-2.20241023git5907ac1.fc42.x86_64 from fedora conflicts with ocl-icd provided by ocl-icd-2.3.2-8.fc42.x86_64 from fedora
  - installed package OpenCL-ICD-Loader-3.0.6-2.20241023git5907ac1.fc42.x86_64 conflicts with ocl-icd provided by ocl-icd-2.3.4-1.fc42.x86_64 from updates
  - package OpenCL-ICD-Loader-3.0.6-2.20241023git5907ac1.fc42.x86_64 from fedora conflicts with ocl-icd provided by ocl-icd-2.3.4-1.fc42.x86_64 from updates
You can try to add to command line:
  --allowerasing to allow removing of installed packages to resolve problems
  --skip-broken to skip uninstallable packages
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FYI please post command output as pre-formmatted text using the </> button.

Maybe do not install the CUDA packages initially?

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I took the liberty of editing your post to add the suggested preformatted text tags.
You can look at your post (edit it) to see the differences.
It was done by adding ``` to the line immediately preceding the output, and the same on the line immediately following the output.

Those appear to be version conflicts between the installed version of OpenCL-ICD-Loader (3.0.6) and the ocl-icd version available in fedora (2.3.2 & 2.3.4)

Either do not install the cuda package which has the conflict or downgrade the opencl-icd package to match what is available in fedora and required by the cuda package.