Fedora 37/36/35 NVIDIA Drivers Install Guide [530.30.02 / 525.89.02 / 520.56.06 / 515.86.01 / 510.108.03 / 470.161.03 / 390.157 / 340.108] - Comment Page: 114
This is guide, howto install NVIDIA proprietary drivers (manually using .run installer) on Fedora 37/36/35/34/33/32 and disable Nouveau driver. This guide works with GeForce 8/9/200/300/400/500/600/700/800/900/10/20/30/40 series cards.
GeForce RTX 40 series cards works with 530.xx, 525.xx, 520.xx NVIDIA drivers, (RTX 4090)
GeForce RTX 30 series cards works with 530.xx, 525.xx, 520.xx, 515.xx, 510.xx and 470.xx NVIDIA drivers, (RTX 3090, RTX 3080 and RTX 3070, RTX 3060, RTX 3060 Ti)
GeForce RTX 20 series cards works with 530.xx, 525.xx, 520.xx, 515.xx, 510.xx and 470.xx NVIDIA drivers (RTX 2080 Ti, RTX 2080, RTX 2070 Ti, RTX 2070, RTX 2060)
GeForce GT/GTX 600/700/800/900/10 series...
[[email protected] ~]$ nvidia-installer -v |grep version
nvidia-installer: version 390.141 ([email protected]) Mon Dec 28
[[email protected] ~]$ uname -a
Linux westwall 5.10.9-201.fc33.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 20 16:56:23 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[[email protected] ~]$ lspci |grep -E “VGA|3D”
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF119 [GeForce GT 610] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23887/8 PCIe Broadcast Audio and Video Decoder with 3D Comb (rev 04)
If you are a Linux type of user, then try to NOT purchase a PC with NVIDIA video.
Linux AMD drivers are in the kernel tree, and excellent.
Intel, not as good, however also part of the kernel.
You are totally right that AMD and Intel have better open source support on Linux Kernel.
I have used NVIDIA products with Linux since 2006 and have to say that it needs bit work, but still everything works without problems. Most problematic are old NVIDIA cards without NVIDIA support.
nvidia-installer: version 418.113
Linux localhost.localdomain 5.10.8-200.fc33.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jan 17 19:53:01 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK104GLM [Quadro K3000M] (rev a1)
OMG! It worked :-D … I was so sure this would blow up in my face, hehe.
I was suffering a nouveau bug preventing Android Studios emulator from working. So I finally decided to switch to Nvidias driver.
I can’t thank you enough!
nvidia-installer -v |grep version
nvidia-installer: version 460.39
uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 5.10.12-200.fc33.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 1 02:40:52 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
lspci |grep -E “VGA|3D”
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 3GB] (rev a1)
Thank you so much! Very helpfull and detailed guide.
In the middle of installation error ocured: Yor kernel headers for kernel 5.8.15-301.fc33.x86_64 cannot be found at /lib/modules5.8.15…/build or /source
So I had to install:
sudo dnf install kernel-devel-5.8.15-301.fc33.x86_64
[[email protected] ~]$ nvidia-installer -v |grep version
nvidia-installer: version 460.39
[[email protected] ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 5.8.15-301.fc33.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Oct 15 16:58:06 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[[email protected] ~]$ lspci |grep -E “VGA|3D”
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile] (rev a1)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir (rev c6)
Hi Aleksey,
You should have latest kernel installed and running if you run commands on step 2.4 currently latest kernel version is 5.10.13. Then also right kernel devel package is installed with install command on step 2.5. If you want run old kernel some reason, then yes, you have to install right kernel packages.
nvidia-installer: version 460.39
Linux — 5.10.13-200.fc33.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Feb 4 14:54:51 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
0a:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce GTX 1080] (rev a1)
Linux brainmain.brain.net 5.10.11-200.fc33.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 27 20:21:22 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM206 [GeForce GTX 950] (rev a1)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM206 [GeForce GTX 950] (rev a1)
Thanks for your great guides. I have been referencing them for about a decade, Fedora 15/16.
nvidia-installer: version 460.32.03
Linux brainmain.brain.net 5.10.11-200.fc33.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 27 20:21:22 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM206 [GeForce GTX 950] (rev a1)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM206 [GeForce GTX 950] (rev a1)
Thanks for the guides. I have used them since Fedora 15/16, so nearly a decade. Thanks again.
2.6.2 Edit /etc/sysconfig/grub ==> 2.6.2 Edit /etc/default/grub
change to file ~!!
Do you have some reason why I should change it?
It is exactly the same file:
I’ve been using Fedora since Fedora Core 1 and Red Hat before that, so I can tell you that the more RHEL/Fedora/CentOS/SLES way is use /etc/sysconfig instead of /etc/default (which is Debian/Ubuntu way).
One earlier discussion about /etc/sysconfig vs /etc/default.
You can read Fedora developers discussion about /etc/sysconfig vs /etc/default from:
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/152
* nvidia-installer: version 460.39
* 5.10.15-200.fc33.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 10 17:46:55 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
* 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU117GLM [Quadro T1000 Mobile] (rev a1)
I succeded with the installation.
But everytime when I upgrade my kernel it doesn’t work anymore. Is there a trick what I can do to get the driver working without uninstall it and than install it again?
Hello Philipp B,
Nice to hear that you got it working.
This might be dkms problem, could you post output of following command:
Thanks for the how-to on installing NVIDIA Drivers. It all went swimmingly until I ran the Nvidia installer. (Logged in as root then I had it cd / and then cd down to its location.) Began to initialise but detected the Nouveau driver was still there and advised to blacklist it after tying to do it itself and failing. I reissued the disable nouveau mod probe again as root used and rerun installer. This time it found the nouveau driver active again and inferred that even though there were grub files to disable it, the boot loader had still loaded it afterward for some reason. Exited with leaving me with the problem. I’m not an experience Linux programmer but this issue seems to pop up regularly with other driver installs. It seems that 3rd party driver providers do not know what developer dependencies are need to compile, nor how to stop the kernel from restarting black listed drivers. It even seems if you delete them, it will just download them. Ready to give up on driver installation and that means giving up on Linux unfortunately.
Take 2 – Please bypass previous comment. After reissuing commands to remove nouveau and rebooting, the install run until it failed to run dkms build and advised it could not find kernel headers. I tried installing them using same command as Aleksey 8 Feb comment, def install kernel…fc333.68_64. Unfortunately also this failed asking for a missing destination operand. I don’t know where that would be and assume this would /lib/modules/5.8.15…/build or /lib/modules/5.15…/source where the installer expected to find them. Please overlook my Linux naivety and help with the correct command to install the headers. It seems there is no absolute right place. Just put them where they will be found. Had similar problems with other drivers and found that /build is a broken symbolic pointer, not a directory. Is this usual and is it a problem. Will fudge it in the interim.
Thanks for your help…. it’s great… All correct and functional!
You are welcome!
hello
I had do exactly this process
but afetr final reboot, black screen was my result!
help me plese
Hello saman,
Please post output of following commands:
And what NVIDIA installer version you tried to install?
if i followed through the whole guide, how do i undo everything?