First I tried installing CUDA for blender cycles renderer. That broke my driver installation.

Then I removed anything nvidia with sudo dnf remove *nvidia*, which made my system return to the nouveau driver (which works great btw, it’s just too slow for what I need)

Now, every time I go sudo dnf install nvidia-driver, it installs it, and when I reboot, my screen is all blown up and using an incorrectly small resolution I cannot change in the settings:

Also nvidia-smi is not being installed. So a lot of stuff is going wrong…
I also think it is not actually running the nvidia driver, since anything accelerated, like the GNOME animations are turned off.

It would be amazing if someone were to provide me with help on this! <3

  • jrgd@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 days ago

    What repos do you have enabled for your system? The recommended way to install the NVidia proprietary drivers (akmod-nvidia for classic proprietary drivers or akmod-nvidia-open for nvidia-open drivers (closed source driver, open source kernel module for attachment)) assumes you have the RPMFusion repos (free, nonfree) enabled in your system. There is also xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda for CUDA support.

    I am curious what repo you are pulling the package nvidia-driver from as it doesn’t appear in either Fedora repos nor RPMFusion. dnf info nvidia-driver will find this quickly if you don’t know what repo the package is coming from. More than likely, installing from sources other than RPMFusion will lead to a poor experience in terms of NVidia drivers. Additionally, ensure you don’t have secure boot enabled with NVidia, at least initially. If you really desire or need secure boot, you can follow this guide to register your own MOK.

    Additionally (based on recent testing on RTX 4000-series hardware), NVidia may have problems with being stable on Wayland environments other than GNOME. Your mileage may vary, but I had observed severe issues in KDE under Wayland in the past few months.

    • Smorty [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      2·
      6 days ago

      it’s solved by now…

      i had like - three different sources for the driver, one of which being for fedora 39, so that’s where the problems came from.

      i removed the extra sources aaand got it to work.

      then I actually followed the instructions on how to install cuda aaaaanndddd somehow it actually worked!! :ooooo

      i cn use blender with cuda now! (and the drivers work too! <3)