I just upgraded to the branched version 42. I was on 41. I performed all of the steps in the upgrade Fedora page. I have tried removing and reinstalling the nvidia drivers multiple times. I don’t get any errors but yet I can’t get the driver to load on boot.
“sudo modprobe nvidia” returns:
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': Invalid argument
mokutil --sb-state returns:
SecureBoot disabled
inxi -Fzxx returns
System:
Kernel: 6.14.0-0.rc5.43.fc42.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 15.0.1
Desktop: GNOME v: 48.beta tk: GTK v: 3.24.43 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM
Distro: Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation Edition Prerelease)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Alienware product: Alienware x16 R2 v: N/A
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Alienware model: 0W5J0F v: A00 serial: <superuser required>
part-nu: 0C90 UEFI: Alienware v: 1.9.0 date: 12/23/2024
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 69.4 Wh (83.0%) condition: 83.6/88.2 Wh (94.8%)
volts: 12.2 min: 11.4 model: COM DELL HP26N44H serial: <filter>
status: not charging
CPU:
Info: 16-core (6-mt/10-st) model: Intel Core Ultra 9 185H bits: 64
type: MST AMCP arch: Meteor Lake rev: 4 cache: L1: 1.6 MiB L2: 18 MiB
L3: 24 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2000 min/max: 400/4800:5100:3800:2500 cores: 1: 2000
2: 2000 3: 2000 4: 2000 5: 2000 6: 2000 7: 2000 8: 2000 9: 2000 10: 2000
11: 2000 12: 2000 13: 2000 14: 2000 15: 2000 16: 2000 17: 2000 18: 2000
19: 2000 20: 2000 21: 2000 22: 2000 bogomips: 135168
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Meteor Lake-P [Intel Arc Graphics] vendor: Dell
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Xe-LPG ports: active: eDP-1
empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4 bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:7d55
Device-2: NVIDIA AD103M / GN21-X11 [GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU]
vendor: Dell driver: nouveau v: kernel arch: Lovelace ports: active: none
empty: DP-5, DP-6, HDMI-A-1, eDP-2 bus-ID: 0000:01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:2757
Device-3: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_FHD driver: uvcvideo type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-8:4 chip-ID: 0bda:557c
Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.6 compositor: gnome-shell
driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nouveau failed: nvidia
alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics 0x3ca2 res: 2560x1600 dpi: 189
diag: 406mm (16")
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.0.0 glx-v: 1.4 es-v: 3.2
direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Arc Graphics (MTL)
device-ID: 8086:7d55 display-ID: :0.0
API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
Info: Tools: api: glxinfo gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi x11: xdriinfo,
xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Meteor Lake-P HD Audio vendor: Dell
driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-mtl bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:7e28
Device-2: NVIDIA driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0000:01:00.1
chip-ID: 10de:22bb
API: ALSA v: k6.14.0-0.rc5.43.fc42.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 7 AX1775 /AX1790 /BE20 /BE401/BE1750 2x2
vendor: Rivet Networks driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 0000:2c:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:272b
IF: wlp44s0f0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-10:5 chip-ID: 8087:0036
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.4
lmp-v: 13
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller Intel
driver: vmd v: 0.6 bus-ID: 0000:00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:7d0b
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 5.46 TiB used: 249.75 GiB (4.5%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 990 PRO 4TB size: 3.64 TiB
speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 32.9 C
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 PRO 2TB size: 1.82 TiB
speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 33.9 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 983.23 GiB used: 23.89 GiB (2.4%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p9
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 798.4 MiB used: 19.2 MiB (2.4%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p8
ID-3: /home size: 526.65 GiB used: 225.84 GiB (42.9%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme1n1p3
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 32 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p7
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 30.85 GiB
used: 4.23 GiB (13.7%)
Processes: 459 Power: uptime: 15m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 257
target: graphical (5) default: graphical
Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 22
Compilers: gcc: 15.0.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.37 running-in: ptyxis-agent
inxi: 3.3.37
dnf list installed *nvidia* returns:
Installed packages
akmod-nvidia.x86_64 3:570.86.16-3.fc42 r
kmod-nvidia-6.14.0-0.rc5.43.fc42.x86_64.x86_64 3:570.86.16-3.fc42 @
nvidia-gpu-firmware.noarch 20250211-1.fc42 u
nvidia-modprobe.x86_64 3:570.86.16-1.fc42 r
nvidia-persistenced.x86_64 3:570.86.16-1.fc42 r
nvidia-settings.x86_64 3:570.86.16-1.fc42 r
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 3:570.86.16-5.fc42 r
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda.x86_64 3:570.86.16-5.fc42 r
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.x86_64 3:570.86.16-5.fc42 r
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc.x86_64 3:570.86.16-5.fc42 r
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 3:570.86.16-5.fc42 r
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power.x86_64 3:570.86.16-5.fc42 r
journalctl --no-hostname -b -1 nvidia | cat returns
Mar 05 18:46:17 systemd[1]: Starting systemd-backlight@backlight:nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight.service - Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight...
Mar 05 18:46:17 audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=systemd-backlight@backlight:nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Mar 05 18:46:17 systemd[1]: Finished systemd-backlight@backlight:nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight.service - Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight.
Mar 05 18:46:17 kernel: audit: type=1130 audit(1741229177.882:56): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=systemd-backlight@backlight:nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Mar 05 18:46:17 kernel: input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card0/input20
Mar 05 18:46:17 kernel: input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card0/input21
Mar 05 18:46:17 kernel: input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card0/input22
Mar 05 18:46:17 kernel: input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card0/input23
Mar 05 18:46:18 audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=nvidia-powerd comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Mar 05 18:46:18 audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=nvidia-powerd comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Mar 05 18:46:18 /usr/bin/nvidia-powerd[1134]: nvidia-powerd version:1.0(build 1)
Mar 05 18:46:18 systemd[1]: Started nvidia-powerd.service - nvidia-powerd service.
Mar 05 18:46:18 systemd[1]: nvidia-powerd.service: Deactivated successfully.
Mar 05 18:46:31 systemd[2270]: Started app-gnome-nvidia\x2dsettings\x2duser-2654.scope - Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
Mar 05 18:46:31 nvidia-settings-user.desktop[2654]: ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded
Mar 05 18:47:11 sudo[3848]: anonymous : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/anonymous ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/modprobe nvidia
Mar 05 18:47:21 sudo[3899]: anonymous : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/anonymous ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/modprobe nvidia
Mar 05 18:51:38 audit[18189]: SOFTWARE_UPDATE pid=18189 uid=0 auid=1000 ses=3 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=update sw="kmod-nvidia-6.14.0-0.rc5.43.fc42.x86_64-3:570.86.16-3.fc42.x86_64" sw_type=rpm key_enforce=0 gpg_res=0 root_dir="/" comm="dnf" exe="/usr/bin/dnf5" hostname=alienwarex16 addr=? terminal=pts/1 res=success'
Mar 05 18:51:38 kernel: audit: type=1138 audit(1741229498.344:369): pid=18189 uid=0 auid=1000 ses=3 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=update sw="kmod-nvidia-6.14.0-0.rc5.43.fc42.x86_64-3:570.86.16-3.fc42.x86_64" sw_type=rpm key_enforce=0 gpg_res=0 root_dir="/" comm="dnf" exe="/usr/bin/dnf5" hostname=alienwarex16 addr=? terminal=pts/1 res=success'
Mar 05 18:56:44 sudo[18539]: anonymous : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/anonymous ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/systemctl unmask nvidia-fallback.service
Mar 05 18:56:51 sudo[18739]: anonymous : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/anonymous ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/systemctl enable nvidia-fallback.service
Mar 05 18:57:07 systemd[1]: Stopping systemd-backlight@backlight:nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight.service - Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight...
Mar 05 18:57:07 systemd[1]: systemd-backlight@backlight:nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight.service: Deactivated successfully.
Mar 05 18:57:07 systemd[1]: Stopped systemd-backlight@backlight:nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight.service - Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight.
Mar 05 18:57:07 audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=systemd-backlight@backlight:nvidia_wmi_ec_backlight comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
rpm -qa | grep nvidia returns:
nvidia-gpu-firmware-20250211-1.fc42.noarch
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-570.86.16-5.fc42.x86_64
nvidia-modprobe-570.86.16-1.fc42.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc-570.86.16-5.fc42.x86_64
nvidia-settings-570.86.16-1.fc42.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-570.86.16-5.fc42.x86_64
akmod-nvidia-570.86.16-3.fc42.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power-570.86.16-5.fc42.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs-570.86.16-5.fc42.x86_64
nvidia-persistenced-570.86.16-1.fc42.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-570.86.16-5.fc42.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-6.14.0-0.rc5.43.fc42.x86_64-570.86.16-3.fc42.x86_64
please let me know if there is anything I’m missing.
Thanks