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: 4
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...
You could replace part 2 of step 2.5 (Downgrading xorg-x11 for Fedora 23 users) with a simple command that will install the latest version available in Fedora 22 (1.17) from the official repository:
dnf –allowerasing –releasever=22 downgrade xorg-x11-server-Xorg
And afterwards proceed to the next part (Excluding xorg-x11 from updates as described here).
It would eliminate the need for downloading packages from a third-party source (if !1 0), and use the ones released by Fedora.
it’s double “-“s before the dnf options, of course :)
Hi Alex,
This guide uses original Fedora 23 Beta packages released by Fedora. Feel free to verify all package signatures.
Like:
Not so third-party source.
Your method works if F22 Xorg packages are not upgraded to 1.18 too. This might happen even before 1.18 stable is released and nVidia won’t support Xorg development versions.
You can also run step 2.5 command, like:
Or select any other Fedora mirror from https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/mirrors/Fedora/23/x86_64
This works until Fedora 23 Beta packages disappear from mirrors.
The latest build of xorg-x11-server for fc22 is version 1.17.4-1 .
AFAIK – there’s not going to be a 1.18 update for fc22, at least I haven’t seen anything related to that.
Yes, I know.
Btw. Xorg 1.18 is stable now (stable Fedora builds for F23, F24 are available too), so hopefully nVidia add Xorg 1.18 support soon.
I can’t figure out how to get it working. I went through all the steps with ease but the result is that I can’t login to fedora, only via tty. No GUI loads only black screen with blinking cursor. Thanks for any advices on how to resolve this problem.
nvidia-installer: version 352.55 ([email protected]) Thu Oct 8 15:52:45 PDT 2015
Linux Fedora 4.2.5-201.fc22.x86_64 #1 SMP Web Oct 28 20:00:23 UTC 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Geeneration Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [GeForce GT 520M] (rev a1)
Hi Tomas,
You have nVidia Optimus device. I tried to describe this on step 1.2.
If you can’t switch Intel Graphics / Optimus Technoly off in BIOS, you can’t use this guide or nVidia drivers directly, please check:
http://bumblebee-project.org/
and
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bumblebee
for more information, howto install Bumblebee.
Hi and thanks for the guide JR. No problems. One question:
Is it possible to reenable SELINUX after installing and changing to graphical target?
F23 64, GPU GTX970, Driver 352.55, Kernel 4.2.5-300
Hi Milo,
You are welcome! Nice to hear that you got it installed and working!
SELinux should work normally even during installation with 352.55 driver. Only problems what I have noticed was with 304.xx and 358.xx versions.
If you have problems with SELinux enabled, please let me know.
Sir, you are awesome.
nvidia-installer: version 358.09 ([email protected]) Wed Oct 7 20:38:43 PDT 2015
Linux storm 4.2.5-300.fc23.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 27 04:29:56 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 980] (rev a1)
Thanks Beshoy! Nice card by the way. :)
It works perfect for me, thanks for the post!
nvidia-installer: version 352.55 ([email protected])
Linux XXXXXXXXXX 4.2.5-201.fc22.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 28 20:00:23 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107GL [Quadro K620] (rev a2)
Hi and thank you JR.
It works for me to, and however I’m a beginner
nvidia-installer: version 340.93 ([email protected])
Linux linux.home 4.2.5-300.fc23.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 27 04:29:56 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GS] (rev a1)
Hi Patrick,
You are welcome! Excellent to hear that you got it working.
Works well on Korora 22 with 750Ti and nVidia 352.XX drivers.
Thanks !
How easy! Just for housewives! Long live Windows & Billy Gates with his lovely CIA & FBI!
Quick question, on my system running Fedora 23 there is no grub.cfg in the /boot/efi/EFI/fedora directory.
(this a brand new system with ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 AM3 AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS)
What is the impact of issuing the “grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg” as you instruct?
Hi Richard,
Could you post output of following commands:
Sorry, a lot of commands, but this is good start to check that your system is really booted with efi. Yes your Sabertooth mobo have of course UEFI, but it supports Legacy BIOS too.
grub2-mkconfig actually just generates new grub.cfg file, you could run:
And you see what it does. With -o parameter it just write it to file.
If you disable selinux in /etc/sysconfig/selinux your system will not boot you knob jockey.
Hi kaddy,
It’s official way to disable selinux on Fedora. So sounds like a bug.
So could you tell little bit more about your Fedora version, what you see when you boot, could you boot to runlevel 3?
I don’t have problems to disable or enable SELinux on my own Fedora installations.
I’m not sure why you are even recommending the disable of selinux… can you explain why? It “shouldn’t” be required for an nvidia installation.
If there is a relevant reason behind this move that I am not aware of… perhaps you should edit the page and tell readers to disable selinux from the grub screen (as recommended from your link) instead of disabling it entirely… on my end it freezes at boot and there is no way to re enable it without chrooting from another installation to re edit the config file.
I don’t have the Fedora installation anymore… but this isn’t the first time this issue has been reported over the years…
Any news on how to restore plymouth? or if you can help console is at a very low resolution any hint?
Hi Sidethorn,
Here is update to Plymouth restore.
I tested it quickly with BIOS / UEFI, but it is really initial version.
I just followed your steps to restore plymouth and it worked perfectly. Thanks again!
Excellent! You are welcome!
Hello, JR
I get stuck in the nvidia installation it can’t load the nvidia module I tried by hand modprobe nvidia and returns: could not insert ‘nvidia’: Required key not available, I turned off secure boot on bios, I have Fedora 22 in a Lenovo Y50.
Thanks in advance.
Hello Roman,
You could try to compile it again with secure boot disabled (don’t sign module) or try to import nvidia-modsign-crt-XXXXXXXX.der key with secure boot enabled.
Great! Still rather be using akmod though.
nvidia-installer: version 352.55 ([email protected])
Linux localhost.localdomain 4.2.5-300.fc23.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 27 04:29:56 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] (rev a1)
Thanks a lot for this page. Very helpful. The new nvidia driver works with Xorg 1.18, so I followed all your instructions without downgrading Xorg and it all worked thanks very much.
Nvidia installer version 352.63, Linux Fedora23 4.2.5-300.fc23.x86_64, VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF110 [GeForce GTX 570] (rev a1)
I hope that’s useful all the best Tom
Thanks Tom,
Just updated this guide. Actually downgrade is still needed if you want to install 355.11 or 358.09 BETA drivers on Fedora 23, but it’s maybe better use Xorg 1.18 and wait new betas and maybe 355.xx release too, if it’s coming.
It works perfect.
nvidia-installer: version 352.55 ([email protected])
Linux XXXXX 4.2.5-300.fc23.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 27 04:29:56 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750] (rev a2)