This article will cover how to install the current Nvidia drivers on Fedora.
As of authoring this article the current release of Fedora is 33. I am using RPM Fusion because that is the only way I have my RTX 2070 Max-Q (Refresh) working.
Update: In order for the drivers to work correctly, disable secure boot.
Adding RPM Fusion to the system
These repositories ship with extra packages that Fedora’s repositories don’t ship by default, the second command installs the non-free repository. The non-free repository contains packages that are propriety or partially open source.
sudo dnf install \
https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpmCode language: JavaScript (javascript)sudo dnf install \
https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpmCode language: JavaScript (javascript)Installing Nvidia drivers.
Let’s update our Fedora setup before installing the drivers. If you end up downloading and installing Kernel updates, reboot the system.
sudo dnf update -y
sudo reboot
Install the Nvidia drivers.
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia
Installing cuda and nvenc, is optional.
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
Once the drivers install, reboot the system. In the next boot, you should have the Nvidia drivers running.
You can check if the Nvidia drivers are running by entering nvidia-smi command.
nvidia-smi
If the drivers work correctly, you should get an output like this, the output may vary based on your GPU.
Fri Jan 1 16:07:42 2021
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 455.45.01 Driver Version: 455.45.01 CUDA Version: 11.1 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce RTX 2070 Off | 00000000:07:00.0 On | N/A |
| N/A 54C P8 8W / N/A | 586MiB / 7973MiB | 1% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 1882 G /usr/libexec/Xorg 117MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2028 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 294MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3709 G ...AAAAAAAA== --shared-files 172MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Code language: PHP (php)These drivers ship with the nvidia-settings application.
