Nvidia in Fedora

Let’s get drivers for Nvidia.

Good place to start: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

Determing the card:

/sbin/lspci | grep -e VGA

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] (rev c6)

Get the drivers:

sudo dnf update -y # and reboot if you are not on the latest kernel
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia # rhel/centos users can use kmod-nvidia instead
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda #optional for cuda/nvdec/nvenc support

Once the module is built, "

modinfo -F version nvidia

should outputs the version of the driver such as 440.64 and not modinfo: ERROR: Module nvidia not found.

Well mine showed error. I am restarting and then I’ll check.

Yup after reboot it is showing 565.77.

Install the GPU Swticher

Get the extension manager from here.

This one you need to get, as I have talk about it my previous blog too.

The repo: https://github.com/bayasdev/envycontrol

Get the envycontrol

Read the installation guide here.

Install the extension:

Select Nvidia from drop down.

Combined post:

To use GPU in Nobara(Fedora)

Install extension manager

GPU profile selector

For this to work you need envycontrol

https://github.com/geminis3/envycontrol

Profiler

1. Switch to Nvidia

sudo envycontrol -s nvidia --force-comp --coolbits 24

Check what coolbits is then use.