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

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    4·
    7 days ago

    TBH Fedora is kind of funky with this because closed source Nvidia support is 3rd party. You were probably using the open driver to start, right? Do not use the official installer from the Nvidia website, it will just screw up your system even more, lol.

    Basically, you need to install the Nvidia driver from the right repo, and carefully check if it’s rolling back or changing other packages before you hit ok.

    Then… Well, there’s all sorts of stuff that could go wrong, but in a nutshell if the system is still slow, start debugging.

    • check if the nvidia-smi command works. If it’s not, the driver is not working at all, and you need to debug this specifically.

    • if it is, it’s likely a Wayland problem, and you need to start looking into kernel parameters, nvidia settings, make sure the driver is properly building against the kernel and such. This is quite a rabbit hole.

    • Smorty [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      3·
      7 days ago

      Could you maybe point me to the right resource?

      First you say “don’t use the official installer”, but the official nvidia website recommends getting a repo for fedora41, which seems reasonable… but u said i shouldn’t use that… im supr confus >~<

      EDIT: Also, I started with the proprietary one… soo yea aaaaa ~ ~ ~

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
        3·
        7 days ago

        Sorry, was kinda a drive by comment! If it recommends fedora specific repos, that sounds good, TBH I’ve never used fedora/red hat with Nvidia.

        If you started with the proprietary drivers, installing CUDA shouldn’t have changed them. What might’ve happened is that it replaced them with drivers that don’t work on your system, so… Where did you get them from before?

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

          i… got them from sudo dnf install nvidia-driver.

          Currently, I uninstalled everything nvidia multiple times and then just installed nvidia-driver, aaaand i get the bad aspect ratio again, and nvidia-smi is missing. so something bad is happening. a LOT of stuff is just - missing… i think.

          i dun even know if i am no actually RUNNING the proprietary, or open source, or software CPU renderer now… currently in smol-ui mode.

          • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
            2·
            7 days ago

            Nvidia drivers are usually split into many packages, and in that case maybe Nvidia smi is part of a tools/extras package or something like that.

            The aspect ratio thing may be a temporary hiccup, though it’s not a good sign.

            One possibility is you have mismatched packages? The kernel, nvidia driver, Nvidia tools, ALL of it has to be matched together to work. If you have packages from different sources, it will not, which is why I’m so wary of 3rd party support like this.