This is guide, howto install NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 12.1 on Fedora 38/37. I assume here that you have installed NVIDIA drivers successfully using my earlier Fedora NVIDIA Drivers Install Guide. You will need NVIDIA 530.xx drivers. As always remember backup important files before doing anything!
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Subscribe and follow: Follow @inttf 1. Install NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 12.1 on Fedora 38/37 1.1 Build and Install GCC 12.
Uninstall NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 12.1 on Fedora 38/37 2.1 Change root user su - ## OR ## sudo -i 2.2 Run NVIDIA CUDA Uninstall Script /usr/local/cuda/bin/cuda-uninstaller 2.3 Remove /etc/profile.d/cuda.sh rm /etc/profile.d/cuda.sh Then logout/login get NVIDIA CUDA away from PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
This is guide, howto install NVIDIA proprietary drivers (manually using .run installer) on Fedora 38/37/36 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 535.xx, 530.xx, 525.xx, 520.xx NVIDIA drivers, (RTX 4090) GeForce RTX 30 series cards works with 535.xx, 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 535.
Fedora 38/37/36 Uninstall NVIDIA drivers and Enable Nouveau I assume here that you have used this guide install part to install your NVIDIA drivers. This whole process is good to run on runlevel 3. When there is no X running. So first boot to runlevel 3 using direct parameter (3) on Grub linux/linuxefi line or using “systemctl set-default multi-user.target”.
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Enable Xwayland with NVIDIA 535.43.02 / 530.41.03 / 525.116.04 / 515.105.01 / 470.182.03 proprietary drivers on Fedora 38/37/36 GNOME 44/43/42 desktop This is guide, howto enable NVIDIA accelerated 3D rendering and Xwayland on on Fedora 38/37/36 with NVIDIA 535.43.02 / 530.41.03 / 525.116.04 / 515.105.01 / 470.182.03 proprietary drivers on GNOME 44/43/42. Tested with latest NVIDIA drivers, I assume here that you have installed NVIDIA drivers using this guide. This might work normally with any other installation methods too, but it’s not tested.
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This is guide, howto install nVidia proprietary drivers on Fedora 20 “Heisenbug” and disable Nouveau driver. This guide works with GeForce 6/7/8/9/200/300/400/500/600/700 series cards. Older GeForce series cards works with 304.xx nVidia drivers and newer 8/9/200/300/400/500/600/700 series cards works with 331.xx nVidia drivers.
Fedora 20 nVidia driver installation is not much different from previous Fedora versions. This guide is divided in three sections Install, Restore Plymouth, Uninstall I have tested this guide with a couple computers, so let me know, if you have some problems and if you succeed, you could post output of following commands:
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This is guide, howto install nVidia proprietary drivers on Fedora 19 “Schrödinger’s Cat” and disable Nouveau driver. This guide works with GeForce 6/7/8/9/200/300/400/500/600/700 series cards. Older GeForce series cards works with 304.xx nVidia drivers and newer 8/9/200/300/400/500/600/700 series cards works with 331.xx nVidia drivers.
Fedora 19 nVidia driver installation is not much different from previous Fedora versions. I have tested this guide with a couple computers, so let me know, if you have some problems.
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This is guide, howto install nVidia proprietary drivers on Fedora 18 “Spherical Cow” and disable Nouveau driver. This guide works with GeForce 8/9/200/300/400/500 series cards (and currently also with GeForce 6/7). Later you might need different version of nVidia drivers if you use GeForce 6/7 card.
Fedora 18 nVidia driver installation is not much different from previous Fedora versions. I have tested this guide with a couple computers, so let me know, if you have some problems.
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This is guide, howto install nVidia proprietary drivers on Fedora 17 “Beefy Miracle” and disable Nouveau driver. This guide works with GeForce 6/7/8/9/200/300 series cards.
Fedora 17 nVidia driver installation is not much different from previous Fedora versions. I have tested this guide with a couple computers, so let me know, if you have some problems.
Before nVidia drivers installation Check is your nVidia card supported lspci |grep -i VGA ## Example output ## 01:00.
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This is guide, howto install nVidia proprietary drivers on Fedora 16 and disable Nouveau driver. This guide works with GeForce 6/7/8/9/200/300 series cards.
Fedora 16 nVidia driver installation is not much different from previous Fedora versions. I have tested this guide with a couple computers, so let me know, if you have some problems.
Before nVidia drivers installation Check is your nVidia card supported lspci |grep -i VGA ## Example output ## 01:00.
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This is guide, howto install nVidia proprietary drivers on Fedora 15 and disable Nouveau driver. This guide works with GeForce 6/7/8/9/200/300 series cards and also with GeForce FX cards.
Fedora 15 nVidia driver installation is not much different from previous Fedora versions. I have tested this guide with a couple computers, so let me know, if you have some problems.
Install nVidia proprietary drivers on Fedora 15 and disable the nouveau driver 1.
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This is guide, howto install nVidia proprietary drivers on Fedora 14 and disable Nouveau driver. I write this guide about two weeks ago, but I Delayed the publication of this guide, because of pyxf86config bug, which cause following livna-config-display errors on boot:
*Checking for module nvidia.ko: [ OK ]
Enabling the nvidia driver: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display”, line 28, in import livnaConfigDisplay.
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I’ve tried this method in few Fedora 12 and Fedora 13 machine, and looks like it is working. Nouveau has been enabled by default starting from Fedora 11 and looks like nouveau cause some problems on Fedora 12 and Fedora 13, when try to use nVidia proprietary driver.
Note: nVidia proprietary drivers on Fedora 12 and Fedora 13 does not support older cards than GeForce 6 cards (except for some exceptions, check this comment).