Install NVIDIA proprietary driver on Fedora 41

install-nv-driver-fc41.md

There are some steps that is not documented in the RPMFusion's installation guide. Here's how I install NVIDIA driver on Fedora 41.

1. Update all packages and reboot
2. Install akmod-nvidia from RPMFusion, optionally with packages for CUDA or NVENC.
3. For some reason, after akmod installation, I didn't see modeset=1 on kernel option, so:

#!/bin/bash
sudo grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args='nvidia-drm.modeset=1'

4. Create file /etc/dracut.conf.d/nvidia.conf with the following content:

add_drivers+=" nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm "
install_items+=" /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf "

5. Create file /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf with the following content:

options nvidia_drm modeset=1

6. Wait until akmod done building the drivers.
7. Rebuild initramfs sudo dracut --regenerate-all --force
8. The system is ready to reboot.

TL;DR

The script has not been tested.

#!/bin/bash 
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia \
    xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs \
    xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power \
    nvidia-vaapi-driver libva-utils vdpauinfo

sudo grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args='nvidia-drm.modeset=1'


cat << EOF | sudo tee /etc/dracut.conf.d/nvidia.conf
add_drivers+=" nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm "
install_items+=" /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf "
EOF

cat << EOF | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf
options nvidia_drm modeset=1
EOF

while pgrep akmod; do
    sleep 5
done

sudo dracut --regenerate-all --force