I am a new fedora user and i love the OS. I bought and installed a simple cheap Nvidia card to be able to use HDMI and offload the graphics from the cpu.
I am not a gamer so the card is just for watching youtube and have some quality display experience.
Currently i am using the Nouveau driver since i tried all “Nvidia install guides” without success.
I am wondering does this card work on Wayland?
Also is the nouveau driver good enough for how i use my system? Do i miss a lot of features/performane with this driver?
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I did all these things, i think it is only supported on Xorg server and not on full Wayland.
Everything gets loaded but when booting it fallbacks to Nouveau driver.
i don’t want to blacklist this one cause i don’t know how to change back if no display works.
Legacy GeForce 600/700
Supported on current stable Xorg server release.
This driver is suitable for any NVIDIA Kepler GPU found between 2012 and 2014
dnf update -y sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx akmod-nvidia-470xx sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-cuda #optional for cuda up to 11.4 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.
yo ! i had that kind of problem today and i solved it . i do not know maybe it dos not work for ya but you need to try it . so first, remove any broken NVIDIA driver attempts and old configuration and then ensure the system has enough free space in /boot, because the driver module must be added to the initramfs. nstall the official RPM Fusion NVIDIA driver packages for Fedora, blacklist Nouveau and enable NVIDIA module loading at boot ( i think like taht echo -e “blacklist nouveau\noptions nouveau modeset=0” | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
echo “options nvidia-drm modeset=1” | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf
,rebuild the initramfs and reboot the system (sudo dracut --force --no-hostonly
) reboot. then try to verify with this (lsmod | grep nvidia
lspci -k | grep -A3 -E “VGA|3D”
nvidia-smi
) . it work with me but i do not know this method will work with ya ( mine specs rtx 4050 laptop i513420 16gb ram hp victus)
Some users reporting that cinnamon fedora should work with old Nvidia drivers and Wayland. Maybe you could give it a try.
I would mention that this graphics card is very very old and it will never receive security updates from nvidia anymore. Maybe you should try a GTX 1650 which get updates from Nvidia and it costs 50 Euro on Ebay
I have an old iMac with NVIDIA GK107M [GeForce GT 755M Mac Edition]. Before Fedora 43 I used nouveau but also installed the Nvidia driver from the RPMfusion site, but don’t expect it to work with F43. Just to be sure, I installed nvidia-470xx. As a result, gdm failed to load because the installer removed the comment hash from the line # WaylandEnable=false in /etc/gdm/custom.conf.
The RPM Fusion Howto has sections that tell how to remove the Nvidia driver, but don’t mention reverting the /etc/gdm/custom.conf change.
I’ve build this pc as a headless server, now years later i started using it as a power pc.
Because the board has only VGA build in and the cpu needs to handle all the work i bought a new cheap nvidia card.
It works fine with the Nouveau driver for what i do with it.
Youtube en normal desktop usage.
Probably the Nvidia drivers perform better and for running a LLM offline with Alpaca it would have been nice to use the cards old but still full potential.
I could try to install Cinnamon desktop alongside this Gnome desktop and see if it works there.
I mean a tool like Mint uses, they can install Nvidia drivers from the software center.
A gui that automates the manual steps we perform to install these cards.
NVIDIA works under Wayland (and Xwayland) starting with Fedora 35 and NVIDIA driver 495 and later. With GNOME 41, Wayland can be selected explicitly with GDM.
Please remind that there are known limitations with Wayland and the current NVIDIA driver either because of the driver or the Wayland protocol. See Wayland information for r545 beta release. This document might not be updated to current releases.
Reading this it is clear that the 470 driver will not work on Wayland only.
So on Fedora 43 you need to choose a non Wayland DE.
Yes i installed it from there but i own a RTX5060. Installed it from rpm-NONFREE repo without any issues. So i think you will not see your driver there because your graphics card is too old for wayland. Why are you buying an old card for 48,00 Eur on bol without wayland support and not a GTX 1650 for example. It is nearly on the same price
Install a second NVME or SSD and boot the second distro with grub on boot? Then it is fully isolated. Or you install it on the same NVME or SSD. Grub will manage it.
. My bad.