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title: "Nvidia Drivers on Fedora"
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description: >
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My own up-to-date instructions for installing Nvidia drivers on a Fedora Linux system.
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date: 2025-03-02T08:28:26Z
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- nvidia
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- fedora
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- linux
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---
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My [Thinkpad P14s]({{< relref "p14s" >}}) has a dedicated Nvidia GPU, which
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requires proprietary drivers. There is a gazillion of instructions on the web
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for installing theses drivers on a Fedora system. Every now and then (with
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kernel updates, I guess), my drivers stop working and I have to research _again_
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how to (re-)install these drivers. Usually I notice this when developing raw
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images with [Darktable][]. It gets dead slow and then I find out that OpenCL is
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not working.
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This post mainly serves as a reminder for myself how to re-install the NVidia
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drivers on a Fedora laptop. It should be fairly up to date, because as I wrote,
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I keep running into this problem over and over again.
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The prerequisite is to have the [RPM Fusion][] repositories enabled.
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{{< figure src="discover-settings-rpm-fusion.png" >}}
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## Installing the NVidia drivers
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I found out that I basically only need two packages:
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- `nvidia-settings` and
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- `xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda`
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The first one suffices to pull in the actual drivers and other packages as
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dependencies. The latter is required in order for Darktable to make use of OpenCL.
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```fish
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sudo dnf install nvidia-settings xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
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```
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```plain
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Updating and loading repositories:
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Repositories loaded.
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
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nvidia-settings x86_64 3:570.86.16-1.fc41 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 4.4 MiB
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Installing dependencies:
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akmod-nvidia x86_64 3:570.86.16-3.fc41 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 92.4 KiB
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egl-gbm x86_64 2:1.1.2^20240919gitb24587d-3.fc41 fedora 29.3 KiB
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egl-wayland x86_64 1.1.18~20250114git26ba0e3-2.fc41 updates 80.9 KiB
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egl-x11 x86_64 1.0.1~20241213git61e70b0-1.fc41 updates 161.1 KiB
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nvidia-modprobe x86_64 3:570.86.16-1.fc41 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 51.0 KiB
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xorg-x11-drv-nvidia x86_64 3:570.86.16-5.fc41 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 190.2 MiB
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xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc x86_64 3:570.86.16-5.fc41 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 75.4 MiB
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xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs x86_64 3:570.86.16-5.fc41 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 361.9 MiB
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Installing weak dependencies:
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xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs x86_64 3:570.86.16-5.fc41 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 273.2 MiB
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xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power x86_64 3:570.86.16-5.fc41 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates 233.7 KiB
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Transaction Summary:
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Installing: 11 packages
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Total size of inbound packages is 351 MiB. Need to download 114 KiB.
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After this operation, 906 MiB extra will be used (install 906 MiB, remove 0 B).
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Is this ok [y/N]:
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```
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## Testing the installation
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```fish
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inxi -G
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```
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This will output the following if everything is configured correctly.
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```plain
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Graphics:
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Device-1: Intel Meteor Lake-P [Intel Arc Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel
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Device-2: NVIDIA AD107GLM [RTX 500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU]
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driver: nvidia v: 570.86.16
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Device-3: Syntek Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
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Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.6 compositor: kwin_wayland
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driver: gpu: i915 resolution: 1: 3840x2160~60Hz 2: 3072x1920
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API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: iris,nvidia
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platforms: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device
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API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.6 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.0.0
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renderer: Mesa Intel Arc Graphics (MTL)
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API: Vulkan v: 1.4.304 drivers: N/A surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
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Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
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de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
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wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr```
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```
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If the drivers aren't installed and loaded properly, the graphics card's name
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will be some generic term, not the exact name of the model.
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To test if Darktable can use the CUDA driver, start if from the commandline
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like so:
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```fish
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darktable -d opencl
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```
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This should output a lot of technical information about the graphics card.
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If it doesn't, but instead complains along the lines of
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> FINALLY: opencl is NOT AVAILABLE on this system
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then there is something wrong.
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[Darktable]: https://www.darktable.org
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[RPM fusion]: https://rpmfusion.org
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