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: 71
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...
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I was able to install the 340.107 Nvidia drivers on my Fedora 28 workstation with latest 4.17 kernel. I found I had to apply the patch as per the 4.16 kernel, otherwise the build would fail.
I did though found that upon bootup, the GDM would display an error, saying that there was an error in the kernel (otherwise it was fine). I found that I had installed DKMS and that it was referencing the 390 nvidia drivers. I uninstalled the 390 dkms version, then rebooted.
After a long boot, the dkms driver was rebuilt and GDM didn’t complain of an error in the kernel. However, the dkms driver for some reason still references the 390 version.
The only thing I can put this down to, is that at one point in time I had 390 version drivers installed. I haven’t made any changes since successfully getting the 340 drivers working. I own an Nvidia GT330 video card.
Hope this helps someone.
Hi Tom,
Thanks for posting. Actually I have patched version also here, but yes it’s still same 4.16 patch. Just tested also nVidis 340.107 patched with latest kernel 4.17.7 on Fedora 28 and everything works normally for me too.
Two recommended fixes:
1. (In intro section) GTX 4xx series cards are NOT supported by 396.xx drivers. The 390.xx drivers must be used.
2. (In section 2.6.4) Nouveau is mis-spelled.
Awesome! Thank you!
When updating to 4.17.9-200.fc28, kmod-nvidia from rpmfusion stopped working! Tried 3.5 hours with no luck, and finally found this post! You saved my life as I am in the middle of a project due soon. Thank you a million! BTW, my card is Quadro 2000, seems I can only use you patched version 340.107? Can you please advise? Thanks again.
nvidia-installer: version 340.107 ([email protected]) Thu May 24 22:30:05 PDT 2018
Linux 4.17.9-200.fc28.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 23 21:41:29 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF106GL [Quadro 2000] (rev a1)
UPDATE: installed 390.77 with no issues:
nvidia-installer: version 390.77 ([email protected]) Tue Jul 10 23:19:33 PDT 2018
Linux 4.17.11-200.fc28.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 30 15:21:09 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF106GL [Quadro 2000] (rev a1)
Thank you for this!
Questions:
– Why do you chose to blacklist AND remove the nouveau driver? for me, so far, blacklisting is sufficient.
– Blacklisting could all be achieved at /etc/default/grub by ammending the “linux” entry with all nvidia blacklist commands. Benefit? easier cleanup/managenent:
[ nvidia-drm.modeset=1 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau ]
$ nvidia-installer -v |grep version
nvidia-installer: version 390.67 ([email protected]) Fri Jun 1 04:26:34 PDT 2018
$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 4.17.9-200.fc28.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 23 21:41:29 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ lspci |grep -E “VGA|3D”
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF106GL [Quadro 2000] (rev a1)
nvidia-installer: version 340.107 ([email protected]) Thu May 24 22:30:05 PDT 2018
Linux lola.localdomain 4.17.9-200.fc28.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 23 21:41:29 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
1d:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2)
At first instance everything seems to work ok, X starts fine with the driver etc…
But at second instance none of the hardware accelleration will work… (vdpau etc.) this was the very reason for using this driver instead of nouveau in the first place.
But vlc // mpv all won’t work, probably because of a conflicting openCL installation
$ mpv ‘skateboard.mp4’
mpv: /lib64/libOpenCL.so.1: no version information available (required by /lib64/libavutil.so.56)
mpv: /lib64/libOpenCL.so.1: no version information available (required by /lib64/libavutil.so.56)
mpv: /lib64/libOpenCL.so.1: no version information available (required by /lib64/libavfilter.so.7)
mpv: relocation error: /lib64/libavutil.so.56: symbol clCreateImage version OPENCL_1.2 not defined in file libOpenCL.so.1 with link time reference
….
$ vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.1.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit
….
.. the VDPAU lib seems ok though…
$ vdpauinfo
API version: 1
Information string: NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library 340.107 Thu May 24 21:44:57 PDT 2018
Video surface:
name width height types
——————————————-
420 4096 4096 NV12 YV12
422 4096 4096 UYVY YUYV
Same exact problem for me. See my comment at https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2015/fedora-nvidia-guide/comment-page-70/#comment-329094 . Did you finally sort it out, or what can we do to solve it?
Thank you very much,
Andrea
Is there any answer or hint on this?
Same errors here, with Fedora 28 and 340.107 nvidia driver (gt330m). Also openshot doesn’t work and vlc is not able to play a sample mp4 clip. All problems are related to ffmpeg and opencl but I can’t find a solution. With nouveau driver all programs are running fine but I need nvidia driver for my vm machines.
The last part of clinfo output say:
NOTE: your OpenCL library only supports OpenCL 1.1, but some installed platforms support OpenCL 1.2. Programs using 1.2 features may crash or behave unexepectedly.
Hi jojob,
Unfortunately current status of nVidia 340.107 is following:
The Linux 340.* legacy driver series is the last to support the G8x, G9x, and GT2xx GPUs, and motherboard chipsets based on them. Support for new Linux kernels and X servers, as well as fixes for critical bugs, will be included in 340.* legacy releases through the end of 2019.
Thank you JR. In the meanwhile I’ve solved (just a nightmare workaround) removing some applications like ffmpeg, openshot, vlc and their related libs from my fc28 system and reinstalling the same applications and libs downloaded from fc27 repos. All is working good now but we hope next 340 driver will give opencl 1.2 support, like nouveau driver do. Best wishes.
Works! Unfortunately, I cannot get cuda to work with the driver and so ultimately for me it’s useless.
Anyway, great help, thanks!
$ nvidia-installer -v |grep version
nvidia-installer: version 396.18 ([email protected]) Fri Apr 6 00:58:20 PDT 2018
$
$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 4.17.9-200.fc28.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 23 21:41:29 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$
$ lspci |grep -E “VGA|3D”
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM206GLM [Quadro M2200 Mobile] (rev a1)
I followed these instructions and my system would not boot, even into level 3. I am running fedora 28. I had to do a fresh install. Fortunately I was able to save /home.
Hi richard,
Could you tell more about your hardware?
Hello,
I’m running Fedora 28 on a Lenovo P51. I had installed Fedora 28 w/ Gnome and installed KDE Plasma afterward. I just reinstalled with the KDE Spin and followed your directions but my (4) external monitors (which were working before) are no longer being recognized. Can you help?
nvidia-installer -v |grep version
nvidia-installer: version 390.77 ([email protected]) Tue Jul 10 23:19:33 PDT 2018
uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 4.17.9-200.fc28.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 23 21:41:29 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
lspci |grep -E “VGA|3D”
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 591b (rev 04)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107GLM [Quadro M1200 Mobile] (rev a2)
Thank you in advance!
Hi endymioncalcite,
Did you read step 1.2 NVIDIA Optimus Technology? Unfortunately this guide won’t work for you, if you can’t disable nVidia Optimus/Intel Graphics?
Fedora28, I have 2 NVIDIA video cards.
$ lspci |grep -E “VGA|3D”
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] (rev a1)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] (rev a2)
Each card links 2 screens.
After I install nvidia-390-77, only 01:00.0 VGA work, only 2 screens work. But at the beginning, nouveau, 4 screens are show well.
Anyone who can give some advice? Thanks very much.
Hi Kevin,
What shows
nvidia-settings, could you see both cards and all monitors?And now, I am trying 2 cards, 2 monitors, each card just links one monitor…
Hi Kevin,
Could you try to enable nVidia Xinerama? You can do it probably on nvidia-settings or at least modifying directly xorg.conf.
More info from here:
http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/390.77/README/xineramaglx.html
Hello and thanks for your great info, helped a lot, including the reverse actions (put the nouveau back again)
I had to rollback as I did not have any display with the NVIDIA drivers (396.45 or the latest from august, tried both)
My lspci
lspci |grep -E “VGA|3D”
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP104M [GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile] (rev a1)
everything is ok until after the login page (no problem during installation following your great guide) but after i type my login / password on the graphical UI, screen goes black and does not lit up again (waited 15 mins just in case, without anything happening).
Just tell me if you need more info and how to get it :)
My computer is a ASUS Rogue GL702VI
Best regards !!
BTW, my version is
Linux localhost.localdomain 4.17.11-200.fc28.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 30 15:21:09 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Hi Olivier,
Sounds strange, but what display manager and desktop you are using? Default GDM and Gnome?
Yes, default GDM and gnome 3.28.2 (2018-05-10)
Thanks for this guide. Very helpful!
I am having a problem with Fedora 27 after installing Nvidia drivers — gdm won’t work.
Installation went fine with your directions, but then gdm gives a generic “Oops! Something went wrong” error popup.
I had to switch to using lxdm, which does work but now there is no screen lock or switch user any more.
Versions:
kernel 4.17.9-100.fc27.x86_64
Nvidia installer NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.77.run
It is a new fully updated install of F27.
Any pointers for what to try?
Thank you.
nvidia-installer: version 390.77 ([email protected]) Tue
Linux localhost.localdomain 4.17.12-200.fc28.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Aug 3 15:01:13 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M] (rev a1)
I had a few hiccups as im relatively new to using linux, issues with secure boot, because my computer has issues loading my ssds with it disabled. Once secure boot was turned off, then the ‘nvidia-drm’ issue went away, as well as other issues along the way.
this was an excellent guide
my only issue now is that i am running three lg tvs as my primary screens with my laptop display disabled. but it wont let me change the resolution of my 2 side displays from 4k, whereas my middle display is in 1080.
I would personally prefer them all to be in 1080. because the 4k causes them to be quite choppy. But the resolution option doesnt show up in the menu for the other screens
They are connected to my laptop via:
1. Straight hdmi cable
2. hdmi from tv to dvi converter
3. hdmi from tv to usb-c converter
keep in mind that if i boot into windows everything runs fine
Also, i am not really posting this here for a response, more just for anyone elses info if they are curious about how its running and have a similar machine.
Thanks again for the guide.
Hi Robert,
Nice to hear that you liked my guide.
What shows
nvidia-settings? Could you see all monitors correctly?Hi,
I just followed this article, everything went fine until I reboot at step 2.9.
On boot, I have only 3 lines now:
– mmc0:unknown controller version(3): You may experience problems.
– kvm:disabled by bios.
– kvm:disabled by bios.
Boot does not go further.
I am running a Fedora 28 workstation, I downloaded from the link in the post Nvidia 64bit latest driver: Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver Version 396.51.
My kernel is 4.17.12-200
Thanks in advance for your help.
Hi Pierre,
Could you post output of following command:
Have exactly the same problem, I download the same version of driver also.
Command give me :
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 591b (rev04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] (reva1)
Need help :/
Hi Maher,
Your problem is nVidia Optimus device. Did you see/read step 1.2 NVIDIA Optimus Technology? Unfortunetaly if you can’t disable Optimus/Intel integrated graphics, then this guide won’t work for you. You can install drivers and run CUDA apps, but can’t run displays.