Update to F39 fails to properly activate nvidia drivers

[computersavvy (Jeff V)]

I just updated my laptop from F38 to F39 beta using the dnf system-upgrade command.

Everything seemed to work really well and the system booted but the nvidia drivers failed to load.
Checking the installed nvidia packages, I see that the kmod-nvidia-6.5.3… package was built and installed so it should have loaded. However the boot showed the nvidia driver failed to load -- falling back to nouveau message.

I do have secure boot enabled and have had with the nvidia drivers for quite some time so the key is properly loaded into bios and should have been included in the modules when they were built and installed.

Knowing the modules would not load, and that the modules had been built, I tested to see if it may have been failure to properly sign the modules during the system upgrade and reboot process.

I then removed the kmod-nvidia package with dnf remove kmod-nvidia-$(uname -r) followed by rebuilding the modules and reinstalling with akmods --force Once completed I rebooted and this time the modules loaded properly.

My conclusion is that even though the system upgrade did build and install the kmod-nvidia package, it failed with corrupted modules that would not load or it failed to properly sign the modules so secure boot prevented loading the nvidia drivers.

I did not attempt a reboot with secure boot disabled so I cannot confirm it was failure to sign the modules. I did confirm that rebuilding the modules solved the issue.

STEPS to perform

1. confirm the kmod-nvidia package was built and installed with
   dnf list installed kmod-nvidia-* which should show the package for the newly installed kernel.
2. remove that kmod-nvidia package with dnf. In my case I had already rebooted to the new kernel so it was easy to do with sudo dnf remove kmod-nvidia-$(uname -r)
3. Rebuild the kmod-nvidia package with sudo akmods --force
4. once step 3 completes then reboot. The nvidia drivers should now load properly.

[barryascott]

I recall maybe this is because depmod was not run on the system upgrade for the seen in the f37 to f38. But I may be confusing this with a different cause.

To debug why the fallback happens I mask the fallback service and then try the modprobe after a reboot to get detailed error info.

[mcoyle1960 (Michael Coyle)]

Jeff, your solution worked for me. And just in time! I was worried I was going to have to say on 38 until this was sorted. Here’s my situation:

I have a fresh install of 39 beta on a testing partition. Secure boot is off. X11 session. When the beta first came out, the newest Nvidia driver loaded fine, but at some point after an update (not sure if it was a ststem or Nvidia update), the drivers failed to load with the error message you mentioned. Downgrading to Nvidia 470 worked,

Your solution to remove kmods-nvidia and then force a rebuilt worked.

At this point, do you feel it’s a fedora problem or a Nvidia issue?

[py0xc3 (Chris)]

Interesting case. It might be worth to report it to the testing mailing list.

Since this is a beta release, we expect that you may encounter bugs or missing features. To report issues encountered during testing, contact the Fedora Quality team via the test mailing list or in the #quality channel on Fedora Chat. As testing progresses, common issues are tracked in the “Common Issues” category on Ask Fedora.

It might also worth to consider making this a common issue, even if it is beta atm, there are already users working with it and we want to facilitate and encourage people to do beta testing.

If you have no time, I can do the reporting etc.

Thanks for sharing

[straycat]

Since Fedora39 is still in beta and now frozen until it releases only minor changes will update.You can try this in a terminal
sudo dnf update --enablerepo=updates-testing,updates
This will put in all the updates from testing and if there was a kernel update then kernel-devel was not in Fedora39 so running that command will pull it and all other updates in from the testing repo.Once Fedora39 is released it should update as normal.

[computersavvy (Jeff V)]

@mcoyle1960

I have a fresh install of 39 beta on a testing partition. Secure boot is off. X11 session. When the beta first came out, the newest Nvidia driver loaded fine, but at some point after an update (not sure if it was a ststem or Nvidia update), the drivers failed to load with the error message you mentioned. Downgrading to Nvidia 470 worked,

What is your nvidia gpu?
Please post the output of lspci -nnk

Unless you are using a gpu that was no longer supported when nvidia upgraded the drivers to the 495 (and newer) versions it seems strange that you should have needed to downgrade to the nvidia 470 driver.

In fact , if the driver was newer than the 470 and working fine before this occurred then the downgrade should not have been required at all.

Please also post the output of inxi -Fzxx

Because the situation noted by @straycat is valid, I think the correct fix may be to remove the 470xx drivers then install the newer drivers with the following.

1. dnf remove \*nvidia\*470xx\* which would remove the 470xx driver packages.
2. dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda --refresh --enablerepo=updates,updates-testing which should also pull in the appropriate kernel-devel package (which at present is only in the updates-testing repo)

Following which the newer drivers should properly load and function (assuming my thoughts about having a newer gpu than would require the 470 driver is correct).

[computersavvy (Jeff V)]

@straycat

This will put in all the updates from testing and if there was a kernel update then kernel-devel was not in Fedora39 so running that command will pull it and all other updates in from the testing repo.Once Fedora39 is released it should update as normal.

True mostly.
However, if the user has the nvidia 470xx drivers installed it will not pull the updates to the nvidia drivers since the 470xx driver package is designed to not upgrade to the latest (currently 535).

I suspect this was the reason the upgrade done by the OP did not have the nvidia drivers functioning

[mcoyle1960 (Michael Coyle)]

I will post the outputs of those commands before, but I have an update.

Last night, out of boredom, I installed the KDE spin of F39 beta on metal. Same issue when I attempted to install Nvidia 535x via Gnome Software app. I had to uninstall kmod-nvidia and kmod-nvidia – force. It worked.

Then this morning, I did my normal dnf upgrade on my primary F38 system, and the same friggin thing happened! had to uninstall kmod-nvidia and kmod-nvidia – force. This is three different installs that I have had the problem on. All systems are now running the Nvidia 535 driver after I manually rebuilt the modules.

My laptop GPUs are: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q & Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]

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--------- This is from my Fedora 38 system which ‘broke’ this morning. ------------
--------- Next, I’ll boot into 39 and return to paste that info. ------------

> lspci -nnk
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 8th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [8086:3ec4] (rev 07)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3808]
	Kernel driver in use: skl_uncore
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 6th-10th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) [8086:1901] (rev 07)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3813]
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] [8086:3e9b]
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3a2e]
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915
00:04.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Thermal Subsystem [8086:1903] (rev 07)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3830]
	Kernel driver in use: proc_thermal
	Kernel modules: processor_thermal_device_pci_legacy
00:08.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th/8th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model [8086:1911]
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3866]
00:12.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Thermal Controller [8086:a379] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3804]
	Kernel driver in use: intel_pch_thermal
	Kernel modules: intel_pch_thermal
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH USB 3.1 xHCI Host Controller [8086:a36d] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3807]
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
00:14.2 RAM memory [0500]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM [8086:a36f] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3804]
00:14.3 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH CNVi WiFi [8086:a370] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Wireless-AC 9560 [8086:0034]
	Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
	Kernel modules: iwlwifi
00:15.0 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO I2C Controller #0 [8086:a368] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3805]
	Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
00:15.1 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO I2C Controller #1 [8086:a369] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:380b]
	Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH HECI Controller [8086:a360] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3811]
	Kernel driver in use: mei_me
	Kernel modules: mei_me
00:17.0 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake Mobile PCH SATA AHCI Controller [8086:a353] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3801]
	Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1d.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #9 [8086:a330] (rev f0)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3819]
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #14 [8086:a335] (rev f0)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:381e]
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1e.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO UART Host Controller [8086:a328] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3810]
	Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation HM470 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller [8086:a30d] (rev 10)
00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH cAVS [8086:a348] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3815]
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_skl, snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
00:1f.4 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SMBus Controller [8086:a323] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3816]
	Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
	Kernel modules: i2c_i801
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SPI Controller [8086:a324] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3803]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] [10de:1f91] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3a2e]
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia
	Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:10fa] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3a2e]
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
06:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Micron/Crucial Technology P2 [Nick P2] / P3 / P3 Plus NVMe PCIe SSD (DRAM-less) [c0a9:540a] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Micron/Crucial Technology Device [c0a9:5021]
	Kernel driver in use: nvme
	Kernel modules: nvme
07:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:38cf]
	Kernel driver in use: r8169
	Kernel modules: r8169

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> inxi -Fzxx
System:
  Kernel: 6.5.8-200.fc38.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 2.39-15.fc38 Desktop: GNOME v: 44.5 tk: GTK v: 3.24.38 wm: gnome-shell
    dm: GDM Distro: Fedora release 38 (Thirty Eight)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 81LL v: IdeaPad L340-17IRH Gaming
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: IdeaPad L340-17IRH Gaming
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0R32862 WIN
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: BGCN36WW date: 05/24/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 35.9 Wh (95.7%) condition: 37.5/45.0 Wh (83.4%)
    volts: 12.6 min: 11.4 model: SMP L18M3PF1 serial: <filter>
    status: not charging
CPU:
  Info: 6-core model: Intel Core i7-9750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Coffee Lake rev: A cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB L3: 12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1250 high: 2601 min/max: 800/2600 cores: 1: 800 2: 2600
    3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 2601 8: 2600 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800
    bogomips: 62399
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Lenovo
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: none
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: Lenovo
    driver: nvidia v: 535.113.01 arch: Turing pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
    ports: active: none empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:1f91
  Device-3: IMC Networks Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-8:2 chip-ID: 13d3:56a6
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia dri: iris
    gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP-1-1 model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x1738
    res: 1920x1080 dpi: 128 diag: 437mm (17.2")
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 vendor: nvidia v: 535.113.01 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650/PCIe/SSE2
  API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a348
  Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10fa
  API: ALSA v: k6.5.8-200.fc38.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off with: a2jmidid status: off
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.83 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:a370
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    port: 3000 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
  IF: enp7s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) driver: btusb
    v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-14:3
    chip-ID: 8087:0aaa
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter> bt-v: 5.1 lmp-v: 10
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 3.64 TiB used: 2.06 TiB (56.7%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Crucial model: CT2000P3PSSD8 size: 1.82 TiB
    speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 40.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT2000BX500SSD1 size: 1.82 TiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 365.61 GiB used: 155.32 GiB (42.5%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 1.3 GiB used: 92 MiB (6.9%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-3: /home size: 823.97 GiB used: 218.94 GiB (26.6%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C pch: 50.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia
    temp: 45 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 348 Uptime: 44m Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.2 GiB
  used: 4.04 GiB (13.0%) Init: systemd v: 253 target: graphical (5)
  default: graphical Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A
  note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 44 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.15
  running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.30

[computersavvy (Jeff V)]

@mcoyle1960

Device-2: NVIDIA TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: Lenovo
    driver: nvidia v: 535.113.01 arch: Turing pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
    ports: active: none empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:1f91

This shows the latest nvidia driver and the GTX 1650 GPU which is properly supported.

When you said

@mcoyle1960

Then this morning, I did my normal dnf upgrade on my primary F38 system, and the same friggin thing happened! had to uninstall kmod-nvidia and kmod-nvidia – force. This is three different installs that I have had the problem on. All systems are now running the Nvidia 535 driver after I manually rebuilt the modules.

Please be more specific.

What broke and forced this manual rebuild.
What nvidia packages are installed? Please post the output of dnf list installed \*nvidia\* from one and we can focus on fixing that one, then the others may need similar repairs.

[mcoyle1960 (Michael Coyle)]

Here is the ouput from my Fedora 39 Beta (gnome). Regarding the 470 driver, that driver was never installed on last noght’s KDE 39. So I doubt it’s install at one point is an issue.

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$ lspci -nnk
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 8th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [8086:3ec4] (rev 07)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3808]
	Kernel driver in use: skl_uncore
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 6th-10th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) [8086:1901] (rev 07)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3813]
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] [8086:3e9b]
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3a2e]
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915
00:04.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Thermal Subsystem [8086:1903] (rev 07)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3830]
	Kernel driver in use: proc_thermal
	Kernel modules: processor_thermal_device_pci_legacy
00:08.0 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th/8th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model [8086:1911]
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3866]
00:12.0 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Thermal Controller [8086:a379] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3804]
	Kernel driver in use: intel_pch_thermal
	Kernel modules: intel_pch_thermal
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH USB 3.1 xHCI Host Controller [8086:a36d] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3807]
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
00:14.2 RAM memory [0500]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM [8086:a36f] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3804]
00:14.3 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH CNVi WiFi [8086:a370] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Wireless-AC 9560 [8086:0034]
	Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
	Kernel modules: iwlwifi
00:15.0 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO I2C Controller #0 [8086:a368] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3805]
	Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
00:15.1 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO I2C Controller #1 [8086:a369] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:380b]
	Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH HECI Controller [8086:a360] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3811]
	Kernel driver in use: mei_me
	Kernel modules: mei_me
00:17.0 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake Mobile PCH SATA AHCI Controller [8086:a353] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3801]
	Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1d.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #9 [8086:a330] (rev f0)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3819]
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #14 [8086:a335] (rev f0)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:381e]
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1e.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO UART Host Controller [8086:a328] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3810]
	Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation HM470 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller [8086:a30d] (rev 10)
00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH cAVS [8086:a348] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3815]
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_skl, snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
00:1f.4 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SMBus Controller [8086:a323] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3816]
	Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
	Kernel modules: i2c_i801
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SPI Controller [8086:a324] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3803]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] [10de:1f91] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3a2e]
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia
	Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:10fa] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3a2e]
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
06:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Micron/Crucial Technology P2 [Nick P2] / P3 / P3 Plus NVMe PCIe SSD (DRAM-less) [c0a9:540a] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Micron/Crucial Technology Device [c0a9:5021]
	Kernel driver in use: nvme
	Kernel modules: nvme
07:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:38cf]
	Kernel driver in use: r8169
	Kernel modules: r8169

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$ inxi -Fzxx
System:
  Kernel: 6.5.6-300.fc39.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 2.40-13.fc39 Desktop: GNOME v: 45.0 tk: GTK v: 3.24.38 wm: gnome-shell
    dm: GDM Distro: Fedora release 39 (Thirty Nine)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 81LL v: IdeaPad L340-17IRH Gaming
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: IdeaPad L340-17IRH Gaming
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0R32862 WIN
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: BGCN36WW date: 05/24/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 35.9 Wh (95.7%) condition: 37.5/45.0 Wh (83.4%)
    volts: 12.6 min: 11.4 model: SMP L18M3PF1 serial: <filter>
    status: not charging
CPU:
  Info: 6-core model: Intel Core i7-9750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Coffee Lake rev: A cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB L3: 12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 950 high: 2600 min/max: 800/2600 cores: 1: 800 2: 800
    3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 2600 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800
    bogomips: 62399
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Lenovo
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: none
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: Lenovo
    driver: nvidia v: 535.113.01 arch: Turing pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
    ports: active: none empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:1f91
  Device-3: IMC Networks Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-8:2 chip-ID: 13d3:56a6
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.2
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia dri: iris
    gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP-1-1 model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x1738
    res: 1920x1080 dpi: 128 diag: 437mm (17.2")
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.113.01 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX
    1650/PCIe/SSE2 direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a348
  Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10fa
  API: ALSA v: k6.5.6-300.fc39.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.83 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:a370
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    port: 3000 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
  IF: enp7s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) driver: btusb
    v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-14:3
    chip-ID: 8087:0aaa
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter> bt-v: 5.1 lmp-v: 10
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 3.64 TiB used: 13.44 GiB (0.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Crucial model: CT2000P3PSSD8 size: 1.82 TiB
    speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 39.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT2000BX500SSD1 size: 1.82 TiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 91.11 GiB used: 13.35 GiB (14.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 1.3 GiB used: 92 MiB (6.9%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C pch: 52.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia
    temp: 47 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 363 Uptime: 3m Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.2 GiB
  used: 3.66 GiB (11.7%) Init: systemd v: 254 target: graphical (5)
  default: graphical Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A
  note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 8 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.15
  running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.29

[computersavvy (Jeff V)]

That shows F39 with the nvidia drivers running, but only the 6.5.6 kernel. If you did a full upgrade with the updates-testing repo enabled F39 should now have the 6.5.8 kernel.

Please show the output of the dnf list installed \*nvidia\* command as asked for above.

Note that it seems mandatory when updating kernel and/or nvidia drivers that the user wait at least 3 to 5 minutes after the upgrade or install completes before performing a reboot. Without the delay the new driver modules may not be properly built and installed

[mcoyle1960 (Michael Coyle)]

I do not have updates-testing repo enabled because I didn’t feel it was required. Isn’t that more bleeding edge than 39 once it’s released?

As you requested, going forward, we will discuss Fedora/Gnome 39 Beta. Below is the output you requested. BTW, I am more than willing to do a fresh install and be walked through any sequence of commands you’d like. For the sake of others who have Nvidia and would have given up by now on Linux, I’d like to try and help solve this.

$ dnf list installed \*nvidia\*
Installed Packages
akmod-nvidia.x86_64                      3:535.113.01-1.fc39 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
kmod-nvidia-6.5.6-300.fc39.x86_64.x86_64 3:535.113.01-1.fc39 @@commandline      
nvidia-gpu-firmware.noarch               20230919-1.fc39     @fedora            
nvidia-settings.x86_64                   3:535.113.01-1.fc39 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64               3:535.113.01-1.fc39 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.x86_64     3:535.113.01-1.fc39 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc.x86_64       3:535.113.01-1.fc39 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64          3:535.113.01-1.fc39 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power.x86_64         3:535.113.01-1.fc39 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver

[computersavvy (Jeff V)]

@mcoyle1960

Isn’t that more bleeding edge than 39 once it’s released?

Because F39 Beta is in final freeze while they work out the remaining bugs all updates are being held in the updates-testing repo. The Beta is getting no further updates/fixes until after final release.
Once F39 is released as final the great majority of the updates-testing packages will be moved to updates so it (at present) means you would be assisting in verifying that all the current packages there are fully stable.

I am using everything from the updates-testing repo with my latest update as of 10/21 with kernel 6.5.8.

It is up to you whether you also use the updates-testing repo.

[mcoyle1960 (Michael Coyle)]

Is there something you would like me to try next? Maybe a fresh install, then update with the addition of the updates-testing repo, then install Nvidia 535x and see what happens?

[computersavvy (Jeff V)]

Please show us the output of sudo mokutil --sb-state and sudo mokutil --test-key /etc/pki/akmods/certs/public_key.der

If you have secure boot enabled those commands will show most of the needed info.

Add to that the output of dmesg | grep -iE 'secure|nvidia|nouveau'
and
dnf list installed kernel\* and modinfo nvidia