Silverblue 30 and nVidia drivers. Everything is very bad

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Hi, all :slightly_smiling_face:

I add nvidia repo to system (/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nvidia-driver.repo):

[rpmfusion-nvidia-driver]
name=RPMFusion nVidia Driver
baseurl=https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/nvidia-driver/$releasever/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

Next, install it:

rpm-ostree install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia akmod-nvidia

Reboot and check (rpm-ostree status):

ostree://fedora:fedora/30/x86_64/silverblue
Version: 30.20190427.n.0 (2019-04-27T08:57:18Z)
BaseCommit: a602958b1097d0790361a8b907f6f6ecbb62b7bbf826b086401eafb4ffcb845d
GPGSignature: Valid signature by F1D8EC98F241AAF20DF69420EF3C111FCFC659B9
LayeredPackages: akmod-nvidia gnome-tweaks xorg-x11-drv-nvidia

Now the most interesting:

lspci -k | grep nou
Kernel driver in use: nouveau
Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

I tried blocking nouveau driver, but it didn’t help:
I add rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau to grub config and run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg

Maybe somebody is working fine?

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sudo rpm-ostree kargs --append=modprobe.blacklist=nouveau

lspci -k | grep nvidia:

Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

Now all works!

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FWIW here is the original article saying how to install the driver, which mentions using kargs.

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First, thanks for Silverblue! I’ve been using Fedora ever since it was born (as a user, not a developer), and tried Silverblue a couple of days ago. Once I figure out how to get

  • nVidia drivers working
  • Netflix working in Firefox (h254 compat 28)
  • Dropbox working (move from /home to /var/home)

I’ve now forgotten that I’m using Silverblue and not Fedora Desktop. It’s really cool, so thanks!

But I’ve always wondered why installing nVidia drivers on Linux is such a pain.

Is there any reason why the install script would not add the kernel arguments, rather than relying on the user to (a) notice the problem; (b) curse; and finally (c) Google for a solution?

Peace,

John

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On mainline Fedora, when you first open Software it’ll prompt you to add the proprietary repos with the driver FYI.

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Is there any reason why the install script would not add the kernel arguments, rather than relying on the user to (a) notice the problem; (b) curse; and finally © Google for a solution?

You can’t do that automatically on Silverblue just yet, but it will probably be added at some point.