Modify NVIDIA driver installation commands

[PolybiusPro]

Both the nvidia-open and cuda-drivers packages are available on RPMFusion. Dependencies don't need to be installed separately.

[Comprehensive-Wall28]

Hey!

I can't find these commands in the official RPM Fusion documentation.

What I found was https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA#Kernel_Open for the nvidia-open variant but that needs a separate repository not used in this guide.

This package is located in the rpmfusion-nonfree-tainted repository so it doesn't get selected by misstake from unaware users.

Is there a separate source for these you could provide? Thanks!

[Sarthak-Sidhant]

I think @PolybiusPro assumes this from this documentation which has sudo dnf install nvidia-open

https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules#compatible-gpus

however, that can only be used by Turing or later architecture:
"The NVIDIA open kernel modules can be used on any Turing or later GPU (see the table below)."

RPM Fusion has a separate repository for akmod-nvidia-open in the "tainted" section

[PolybiusPro]

The commands are listed on:
https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/driver-installation-guide/fedora.html

Upon checking, it looks like both the nvidia-open and cuda-drivers are aliases for the same packages. Unless the nvidia's own repo is added, they're functionally the same. That being said, it's probably easier to just install with the sudo dnf install cuda-drivers command rather than install akmod-nvidia and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda separately

[Sarthak-Sidhant]

hi @PolybiusPro

The commands are listed on Nvidia's documentation

The Documentation wants you to enable the Network Repository first,
dnf config-manager addrepo --from-repofile=https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/${distro}/${arch}/cuda-${distro}.repo

which we are not using here, as pointed out by @Comprehensive-Wall28

it's probably easier to just install with the sudo dnf install cuda-drivers command rather than install akmod-nvidia and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda separately

i agree, but cuda-drivers pulls in 3 more packages (44MB) than akmod-nvidia which are i686 libraries and persistenced daemon
but i believe for anything like gaming, general use, or development work, you need cuda-drivers anyway, and 44 MB never hurt anyone

have a fine day