Recently I’ve upgraded to Fedora 44 and have noticed that the RPM Fusion NVIDIA repo doesn’t contain the legacy versions (580xx, 470xx, 390xx) found in the normal nonfree repo.
Is that intentional? If not, where should I report it (probably fedora workstation issue tracker)?
If that was a deliberate choice not to include them, how should I switch to RPM Fusion Proper (i.e. should I uninstall everything from the NVIDIA and Steam repositories)?
THe 580xx drivers are in RPMfusion - maybe you do not have all the RPMfusions repos enabled and its move to another one?
I can install all the listed driver from RPMfusion.
This is what I see.
$ dnf repolist | grep rpmfusion
rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Free
rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Free - Updates
rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Nonfree
rpmfusion-nonfree-tainted RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Nonfree tainted
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Nonfree - Updates
$ dnf install akmod-nvidia-580xx.x86_64
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Package Arch Version Repository Size
Installing:
akmod-nvidia-580xx x86_64 3:580.159.03-1.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 99.0 KiB
$ dnf install akmod-nvidia-470xx.x86_64
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Package Arch Version Repository Size
Installing:
akmod-nvidia-470xx x86_64 3:470.256.02-16.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree 126.2 KiB
$ dnf install akmod-nvidia-390xx.x86_64
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Package Arch Version Repository Size
Installing:
akmod-nvidia-390xx x86_64 3:390.157-24.fc44 rpmfusion-nonfree 182.8 KiB
Installing dependencies:
I am using rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver (the one from Making sure you're not a bot! ), not rpmfusion-nonfree.
repo id repo name
rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Nonfree - NVIDIA Driver
rpmfusion-nonfree-steam RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Nonfree - Steam
So you can install from the other RPMfusion repos?
Or are you saying the docs are wrong?
The docs are accurate.
I could switch to the normal RPM Fusion repositories (although I am not sure how), but there doesn’t seem to be anything preventing the legacy drivers from being included in rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver. I’m just not sure where to ask for them to be added to the nvidia driver repo.
as you have correctly stated the legacy drivers are not included in the rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver. Add the full rpmfusion-nonfree repositories if you want/have to install legacy drivers
I think, for reasons I do not recall, the drivers moved to a different repo for f44 (maybe a license changes?).
Once you add all the RPMfusion repos to your system you dnf will automatically find the newer drivers from which ever repo they are in.
See the RPMfusion docs on how to add all its repos. Making sure you're not a bot!
I assume it is intentional, because the 580xx package is following the established pattern of 470xx and 390xx, which have been around for some time and are not in the “…-nvidia-driver” repo.
You’re probably right, however, since there’s no difference in licensing, I think it might still be worth suggesting to add them to the filtered repository (there are versioned packages in the official repositories so I assume there’s no policy against that)
Sure, you could do so at RPMFusion Bugzilla.
I think that the -nvidia-driver repository is maintained by the Fedora Workstation Working Group rather than RPM Fusion
I guess you answered your own question then!
AFAIK the legacy drivers have never been in the rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver repo. At least not in f40 or newer.