gpu driver installation

[iaacornus]

installation of appropriate/corresponding gpu driver upon detection based on user's discretion

[john-ghatas]

This can be automated or being left as a choice to the user. To get the vendor of the graphics card you can do something like maybe?

❯ lspci | grep -E -i "VGA|3D controller" | sed "s/.*controller: //g"
Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]
NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1)
❯ lspci | grep -E -i "VGA|3D controller" | sed "s/.*controller: //g" | cut -f 1 -d " "
Intel
NVIDIA

I am sure there is an easier way to do this. Maybe you can only grep on the 3d controller as well as intergrated graphics are not what we are looking for.

[boredsquirrel]

Some NVIDIA stuff, using rpmfusion rpms and akmods.

Not sure if this is a good idea without installing the rpmfusion repo too.

rpm-ostree install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm && reboot

sudo rpm-ostree kargs --append=rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau --append=modprobe.blacklist=nouveau --append=nvidia-drm.modeset=1

rpm-ostree update --install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia akmod-nvidia

I dont use NVIDIA, does it work on Wayland?

In the Nvidia segment we should include more. This also should be optional, I dont know how bad the noveau drivers are but proprietary drivers are not that nice.

Also what about the universioned rpmfusion?

• add repo
• exclude noveau drivers
• install drivers
• setup tlp for gpu powersave (optional)
• enable some GPU tweaking maybe

[john-ghatas]

Yes NVIDIA works with wayland. I documented the steps to install the nvidia packages here.

# Add RPM Fusion
rpm-ostree install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

# Install the driver packages
rpm-ostree install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
rpm-ostree install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs
rpm-ostree kargs --append=rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau --append=modprobe.blacklist=nouveau --append=nvidia-drm.modeset=1 initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init

# Permanantly fix RPM Fusion, we could place this somewhere else?
rpm-ostree update --uninstall rpmfusion-free-release --uninstall rpmfusion-nonfree-release --install rpmfusion-free-release --install rpmfusion-nonfree-release

I do this after the the installation of the rpm-fusion (as they are only available in their repositories), which would likely require a reboot.

This step could be best placed after updating the system and adding the rpmfusion repositories

References:

• https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/OSTree
• https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

[boredsquirrel]

Okay nice! So you install the rpm itself and that deals with the updates!