Hey, @paulf try to take it easy. We do like Fedora Linux and also like to help users to have a nice experience with it. @computersavvy also helps a lot and in especial with NVIDIA issues. He not wants to annoy you he probably not saw the correction before he answered.
Take in consideration that NVIDIA not uses opensource drivers. That’s why it is not officially in the fedora repository. Testing parallel with rawhide (our testing version), is in this case more difficult.
Feedback from Users is important. Unfortunately the feedback of Nvidia-users not always comes in a friendly way. A lot of users are frustrated because of the troubles they have and it makes them angry.
And we do need to deal with this anger, even if we just would like to deal with the Issue and just get enough information to deal with it.
So if you really want to block someone who just tries to help, yes check your profile settings … there you can block/ignore users.
“Nvidia has been one of the worst trouble spots we’ve had with hardware manufacturers <…> And Nvidia has been the single worst company we’ve ever dealt with.” (C) Linus Torvalds
That was in ~2012 and has not improved much. Some companies goes great lengths towards FOSS communities, even it is less than 1% of whole desktop/laptop OS market. Others ignore it by not bothering to provide updated SW. Linux users have 2 risks generally - incompatible (new/proprietary) HW and incompatible SW. If user happens to choose one or both of those - you are at mercy of the vendor. FOSS projects tries to compensate, but with poor cooperation of such HW/SW vendors there is very little FOSS community can do - there is lack of resources for FOSS itself. We should appreciate that the whole OS is free. In contrast, 4090 costs you thousands, but other than Windows drivers are second class citizen with all power, resources and funds nVidia has.
I knew that the 470 driver was supposed to work with the card. When I swapped the card last year I tried the 470 driver without success and switched to the 390 driver.
I just removed the 390 driver and installed the 470 one. After a few minutes of compiling the kmod sddm and KDE started. So problem solved, for now.