During boot, Fedora shows the message “NVIDIA kernel module missing, falling back to Nouveau”. Removing Nvidia drivers and kernel arguments and re-installing them doesn’t have an effect.
Nvidia drivers were installed as in Howto/NVIDIA - RPM Fusion
Output of rpm-ostree status:
$ rpm-ostree status -v
State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: disabled
Deployments:
● fedora:fedora/42/x86_64/kinoite (index: 0)
Version: 42.20250703.0 (2025-07-03T23:19:33Z)
BaseCommit: e721edcb602fded49a5afd6fcffc24632e32192d5b02731aa8a7c58fc52e141f
├─ repo-0 (2025-04-09T11:06:59Z)
├─ repo-1 (2025-07-03T20:18:23Z)
└─ repo-2 (2025-07-03T20:19:48Z)
Commit: c8612c29569377366380d48691e6c67a0670b2535ab7736c3c4aa3b0aec2a952
Staged: no
StateRoot: fedora
GPGSignature: 1 signature
Signature made Fri Jul 4 04:21:15 2025 using RSA key ID C8AC4916105EF944
Good signature from "Fedora <fedora-42-primary@fedoraproject.org>"
InactiveRequests: qt6-qtimageformats rpmfusion-free-release vulkan-tools
LayeredPackages: akmod-nvidia android-tools btop dillo distrobox f3 fcitx5-mozc gamescope gdal google-noto-fonts-all inxi kcm-fcitx5 libmad libreoffice-calc libreoffice-help-en libreoffice-impress libreoffice-kf6
libreoffice-langpack-de libreoffice-langpack-ja libreoffice-langpack-kk libreoffice-langpack-ru libreoffice-writer nu proj python3-gdal python3-pip qrencode rclone steam waydroid xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda zbar
LocalPackages: rpmfusion-free-release-42-1.noarch rpmfusion-nonfree-release-42-1.noarch
Output of nvidia-smi:
$ nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
Kernel arguments:
rpm-ostree kargs
rhgb quiet root=UUID=f072f4eb-db33-445a-a9cc-c924a8006c4c rootflags=subvol=root rw ostree=/ostree/boot.1/fedora/a5e08910bf3e88d29470b45f51f07f9d434b4c604b322e7c6f3cc5d5431a87df/0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1
Output of inxi -Fzxx:
$ inxi -Fzxx
System:
Kernel: 6.15.4-200.fc42.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.1.1
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.4.1 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
Distro: Fedora Linux 42.20250703.0 (Kinoite)
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: H610M H V3 DDR4 v: -CF
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Gigabyte model: H610M H V3 DDR4 v: x.x serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F1 date: 11/02/2023
CPU:
Info: 6-core model: 12th Gen Intel Core i5-12400 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Alder Lake rev: 5 cache: L1: 480 KiB L2: 7.5 MiB L3: 18 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/5600 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800
5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 bogomips: 59904
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 730] vendor: Gigabyte
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Xe ports: active: HDMI-A-1 off: DP-1
empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:4692
Device-2: NVIDIA TU117 [GeForce GTX 1650] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: NovaCore v: N/A arch: Turing pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f82
Device-3: Microdia USB 2.0 Camera driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-1:2 chip-ID: 0c45:6367
Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.8 compositor: kwin_wayland
driver: X: loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915
display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-1 model: LG (GoldStar) T710PH res: 1280x1024 dpi: 99
diag: 408mm (16.1")
Monitor-2: HDMI-A-1 model: Philips PHL 242E1GZ res: 1920x1080 hz: 144
dpi: 93 diag: 604mm (23.8")
API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: iris device: 1 drv: swrast gbm:
drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris wayland: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.0.7 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 730 (ADL-S GT1)
device-ID: 8086:4692 display-ID: :0.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.313 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
driver: mesa intel device-ID: 8086:4692 device: 1 type: cpu
driver: mesa llvmpipe device-ID: 10005:0000
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-S HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:7ad0
Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10fa
Device-3: Microdia USB 2.0 Camera driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-1:2 chip-ID: 0c45:6367
API: ALSA v: k6.15.4-200.fc42.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.6 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: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.51 TiB used: 1.96 TiB (56.0%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLW256HEHP-00000
size: 238.47 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 34.9 C
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37480G size: 447.13 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Kingston model: SUV300S37A120G size: 111.79 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
ID-4: /dev/sdc vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA200 size: 1.82 TiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
ID-5: /dev/sdd vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-9YN162 size: 931.51 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 40.3 MiB used: 40.3 MiB (100.0%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102
ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 336.3 MiB (34.5%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda2
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 12.5 MiB (2.1%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda1
ID-4: /var size: 445.54 GiB used: 399.84 GiB (89.7%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/sda3
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: 37.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 15.38 GiB used: 4.2 GiB (27.3%)
Processes: 384 Power: uptime: 28m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 257
target: graphical (5) default: graphical
Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 199
Compilers: gcc: 15.1.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.37 running-in: konsole
inxi: 3.3.38
Secureboot is disabled
May be related to NVIDIA driver not loading after Secure Boot disabled – fallback to Nouveau