Hello, I am having a serious problem. I had to quit Pop_OS! because it updated to Nvidia’s driver 560 and it ruined my entire laptop, the entire experience: Games crash, applications take x3 times to open (Firefox takes about 85 seconds to open instead of the usual 10s as in 555), the keyboard and right-click begin to malfunction (keys like ‘n’, ‘b’, Caps Lock, ‘F1’ either get written twice or ignored very constantly, none of this happened before or in my dual boot windows, it’s not dust or a hardware problem) when there is a heavy app loaded, like Boxes, VS Code, World of Warcraft… Sometimes the notepad itself aswell, my Caps Lock behavior will switch (light on = lowercase), but I think I fixed that one. It is incredibly unbearable and annoying.
The worst part of all is that there is no way to downgrade anymore, both in Pop_OS! and Fedora now. I don’t know why they do this, but I tried a lot of things: runfile method (using CLI mode after a reboot), akm, and everything said in this post: Rolling back rpmfusion Nvidia drivers from 560 to 555 - #11 by caferino
Is this it? Is there no way out?
Specs:
OS: Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation Edition)
Host: HP ENVY m7 Notebook
Kernel: 6.11.4-201.fc40.x86_64
Packages: 2727 (rpm), 56 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.2.26
Resolution: 1920x1080
DE: GNOME 46.6
WM: Mutter
WM Theme: Adwaita
Theme: Nordic-darker-v40 [GTK2/3]
Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
Terminal: gnome-terminal
CPU: Intel i7-7500U (4) @ 3.500GHz
GPU: Intel HD Graphics 620, NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
Memory: 2032MiB / 15869MiB
AKMODS doesn’t work either, I get these:
caferino@192:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/akmods --force
Checking kmods exist for 6.10.12-200.fc40.x86_64 [ OK ]
Building and installing nvidia-kmod [FAILED]
Building rpms failed; see /var/cache/akmods/nvidia/550.67-1-for-6.10.12-200.fc40.x86_64.failed.log for details
Hint: Some kmods were ignored or failed to build or install.
You can try to rebuild and install them by by calling
‘/usr/sbin/akmods --force’ as root.
Checking kmods exist for 6.11.4-201.fc40.x86_64 [ OK ]
Building and installing nvidia-kmod [FAILED]
Building rpms failed; see /var/cache/akmods/nvidia/550.67-1-for-6.11.4-201.fc40.x86_64.failed.log for details
Hint: Some kmods were ignored or failed to build or install.
You can try to rebuild and install them by by calling
‘/usr/sbin/akmods --force’ as root.
caferino@192:~modinfo -F version nvidia
modinfo: ERROR: Module nvidia not found.
caferino@192:~$ dnf list installed nvidia
Installed Packages
akmod-nvidia.x86_64 3:550.67-1.fc40 @rpmfusion-nonfree
nvidia-modprobe.x86_64 3:550.67-1.fc40 @rpmfusion-nonfree
nvidia-settings.x86_64 3:550.67-1.fc40 @rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 3:550.67-1.fc40 @rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.x86_64 3:550.67-1.fc40 @rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc.x86_64 3:550.67-1.fc40 @rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 3:550.67-1.fc40 @rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 3:550.67-1.fc40 @rpmfusion-nonfree
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power.x86_64 3:550.67-1.fc40 @rpmfusion-nonfree
caferino@192:~$