Bug report on nvidia driver 515.65.01 for fedora 36 (kernel 5.18.19, RTX 2060 Rev. 1)

Graphics / Linux Linux
8

Working again

I need nvidia graphics driver and cuda support. Hence I did the following:

  1. Follow CUDA Toolkit 11.7 Update 1 Downloads | NVIDIA Developer 
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/fedora35/x86_64/cuda-fedora35.repo
sudo dnf clean all
sudo dnf -y module install nvidia-driver:latest-dkms
sudo dnf -y install cuda

Use f35 repo. There is also a f36 repo that is known not to work.
2. Also install

sudo dnf install kmod-nvidia-latest-dkms
  1. Ensure that nvidia modules are build or build them
dkms status
nvidia/515.65.01, 5.17.5-300.fc36.x86_64, x86_64: installed
# build with
# sudo dkms install nvidia/515.65.01 -k 5.17.5-300.fc36.x86_64
  1. Ensure I’ve got something like this:
cat /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau-blacklist.conf 
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
  1. Build right initramfs with
sudo dracut -v -f --regenerate-all --omit-drivers="nouveau i915" --force-drivers="nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia"
  1. Ensure that you habe kernel parameters including this:
nouveau.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau i915.modeset=0 nvidia-drm.modeset=1
  1. If you changed kernel parameters (see below) update grub2 afterwards with:
grub2-mkconfig -o "$(readlink -e /etc/grub2-efi.conf)"

My complete kernel parameters are:

ro resume=/dev/mapper/fedora-00 rd.lvm.lv=fedora/root rd.luks.uuid=luks-8cfdfb51-cdfa-401a-9815-d3be9a527942 rd.lvm.lv=fedo
ra/00 nouveau.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau rhgb quiet i915.modeset=0 nvidia-drm.modeset=1

After reboot you could do a small check with:

$ nvidia-smi 
Sat Sep 24 08:44:32 2022       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 515.65.01    Driver Version: 515.65.01    CUDA Version: 11.7     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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  NVIDIA GeForce ...  Off  | 00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| 30%   33C    P8    14W / 160W |    874MiB /  6144MiB |      0%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A     10827      G   /usr/bin/kwin_wayland             257MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A     10876      G   /usr/bin/Xwayland                   2MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A     10918      G   /usr/bin/plasmashell              199MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A     11101      G   /usr/bin/nextcloud                 16MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A     11339      G   ...akonadi_archivemail_agent        1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A     11347      G   .../akonadi_mailfilter_agent        1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A     11353      G   ...n/akonadi_sendlater_agent        1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A     11358      G   ...nadi_unifiedmailbox_agent        1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A     11916      G   /usr/bin/systemsettings            58MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A     12190      G   /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox        326MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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