@Marco if you would be willing to try the nvidia-dkms-kmod that may do exactly what you want. And we sure would appreciate user testing for this. The purpose of DKMS is to automatically compile kernel modules if a new kernel is installed.
If you use nvidia this will install it in ROME:
sudo dnf --refresh in nvidia-dkms-kmod kernel-desktop-devel --enablerepo rolling-x86_64-non-free
If you use nvidia-legacy this should install it in ROME:
$ udo dnf --refresh in nvidia-legacy-dkms-kmod kernel-desktop-devel --enablerepo rolling-x86_64-non-free
If there any problems let us know here. The real test will take place over time as we see if it builds the kernel modules automatically when there is a new kernel.
Hehe, I was just starting to read your reply when it went poof! I refreshed the page to no avail
If thereās anything more I can test here that would help, just ask. At the moment, this install isnāt my daily driver so Iām happy to play with it to the point it needs a re-install. Thereās a huge amount of stuff Iād need to port over from my Fedora install to make the change, so Iām in no rush - and thereās nothing really wrong with my Fedora install apart from a couple of minor things.
Many users may find it more convienient to use the dkms verion of nvidia driver packages. With dkms new kernel modules are built automatically when a new kernel is installed. Note: The dkms pakages have only been lightly tested. Currently these only install from Konsole (terminal). To install:
$ sudo dnf --refresh in nvidia-dkms-kmod kernel-desktop-devel --enablerepo rolling-x86_64-non-free
or $ sudo dnf --refresh in nvidia-legacy-dkms-kmod kernel-desktop-devel --enablerepo rolling-x86_64-non-free
If you installed ROME znver1 replace x86_64 with znver1.
I hope I did not do this to soon. But for nvidia stuff it is so difficult to get enough testing. We need users to test nvidia packages when they go to testing repos to make this effort work.
Thank you for your suggestion; Iāve just launched the dnf command for dkms.
Apparently anything run fine, but something looks wrong, maybe because I had nvidia drivers already installed and working?
Iāll paste the error messages only:
Installing : dkms-2.8.4-3.noarch 24/25
Esecuzione scriptlet in corso: dkms-2.8.4-3.noarch 24/25
Failed to try-restart loadmodules.service: Unit loadmodules.service not found.
Installing : nvidia-dkms-kmod-525.78.01-1.x86_64 25/25
Esecuzione scriptlet in corso: nvidia-dkms-kmod-525.78.01-1.x86_64 25/25
Warning: I do not know how to handle 525.78.01.
Error! Arguments and are not specified
Usage: add / or
add -m / or
add -m -v
[ā¦]
Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skippingā¦
Building module:
cleaning build areaā¦
āmakeā -j2 module SYSSRC=/lib/modules/6.1.4-desktop-1omv2301/build IGNORE_XEN_PRESENCE=1 IGNORE_PREEMPT_RT_PRESENCE=1 IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1ā¦(bad exit status: 2)
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.1.4-desktop-1omv2301 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/525.78.01/build/make.log for more information.
Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skippingā¦
Building module:
cleaning build areaā¦
āmakeā -j2 module SYSSRC=/lib/modules/6.1.4-desktop-1omv2301/build IGNORE_XEN_PRESENCE=1 IGNORE_PREEMPT_RT_PRESENCE=1 IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1ā¦(bad exit status: 2)
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.1.4-desktop-1omv2301 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/525.78.01/build/make.log for more information.
Ok, thank you for your feedback.
Iāve removed the running nvidia drivers, rebooted and installed dkms package.
Like before, some errors were returned:
Installing : nvidia-dkms-kmod-525.78.01-1.x86_64 16/16
Esecuzione scriptlet in corso: nvidia-dkms-kmod-525.78.01-1.x86_64 16/16
Warning: I do not know how to handle 525.78.01.
Error! Arguments and are not specified
Usage: add / or
add -m / or
add -m -v
Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skippingā¦
Building module:
cleaning build areaā¦
āmakeā -j2 module SYSSRC=/lib/modules/6.1.4-desktop-1omv2301/build IGNORE_XEN_PRESENCE=1 IGNORE_PREEMPT_RT_PRESENCE=1 IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1ā¦(bad exit status: 2)
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.1.4-desktop-1omv2301 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/525.78.01/build/make.log for more information.
Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skippingā¦
Building module:
cleaning build areaā¦
āmakeā -j2 module SYSSRC=/lib/modules/6.1.4-desktop-1omv2301/build IGNORE_XEN_PRESENCE=1 IGNORE_PREEMPT_RT_PRESENCE=1 IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1ā¦(bad exit status: 2)
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.1.4-desktop-1omv2301 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/525.78.01/build/make.log for more information.
I rebooted and confirm that nvidia drivers have been regularly installed, but what about the said error messages?
Notice the dnf in *.rpm transaction says complete. But lsmod | grep nvidia and lsmod | grep nvidia* show nothing. Plus the transaction went to fast for it to have built kernel modules. Rebooted and still no nvidia modules.
Questions: Arenāt nvidia-legacy kernel modules installed with nvidia-legacy-kmod-desktop-470.161.03-3_6.1.1_1-omv2290.x86_64.rpm ? So dkms would not need to build modules at this time? Only when a new kernel is installed?
What directory would contain the kernel modules for this?
In a VM the modules will never get loaded as the nvidia hardware isnāt there (unless you are passing through an actual dGPU to the VM). In Fedora when Iām in Integrated mode (dGPU is disbled) lsmod | grep nvidia shows nothing also.
Iām also currently playing with the nvidia installer in a VM via VirtManagerā¦ weāll compare results soon (as itās compiling the nvidia modules now).
I repeated my test. I am using nvidia-legacy because it is the least tested of the two.
In the beginning we have this:
# ls -la /lib/modules/6.1.1-desktop-1omv2290/kernel/drivers/video
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28 Jan 15 09:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1048 Dec 26 04:26 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1196 Dec 26 04:26 backlight
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Dec 26 04:26 fbdev
Get these errors which will scare the bejesus out of users:
Running scriptlet: nvidia-legacy-dkms-kmod-470.161.03-3.x86_64 31/31
Warning: I do not know how to handle 470.161.03.
Error! Arguments <module> and <module-version> are not specified
Usage: add <module>/<module-version> or
add -m <module>/<module-version> or
add -m <module> -v <module-version>
Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/470.161.03/source ->
/usr/src/nvidia-470.161.03
DKMS: add completed.
Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping...
Building module:
cleaning build area...
'make' -j2 module SYSSRC=/lib/modules/6.1.1-desktop-1omv2290/build IGNORE_XEN_PRESENCE=1 IGNORE_PREEMPT_RT_PRESENCE=1 IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1...(bad exit status: 2)
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.1.1-desktop-1omv2290 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/470.161.03/build/make.log for more information.
But we end up with:
# ls -la /lib/modules/6.1.1-desktop-1omv2290/kernel/drivers/video
total 104012
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 166 Jan 15 09:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1048 Dec 26 04:26 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1196 Dec 26 04:26 backlight
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Dec 26 04:26 fbdev
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2763216 Dec 25 02:14 nvidia-drm.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66527008 Dec 25 02:14 nvidia.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3046864 Dec 25 02:14 nvidia-modeset.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 260872 Dec 25 02:14 nvidia-peermem.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33904400 Dec 25 02:14 nvidia-uvm.ko
So it looks like nvidia modules are installed to me. My concern is that users wonāt like those errors one bit.
Doh! Your right, so I have to go to the directory to see if modules are installed and that is all I can test this way.
Well, that was odd. In my OM Rome VM the nvidia kernel modules compiled successfully (see full desktop screenshot), but there were warnings that it couldnāt find kernel-headers for 6.1.1 (part screen grab), so I tried installing kernel-headers but it said that the kernel-headers for the 6.2.0-rc2 were installed (other part screen grab). It would seem that thereās something wonky going on regarding kernel-headers? (thatās a guess - Iām in just a little over my head on this).
Sorry for screenshots, but I canāt copy/paste from the VM and I donāt have a decent browser set up in there.
EDIT Just to note, I havenāt passed the nvidia gpu to the VM, and itās disabled atm in the host.
dnf installs what it thinks is highest numeric verion of a package unless you tell it other wise. Since kernel-rc is release candidate for next stable kernel line at kernel.org it is usually a higher number. What I donāt understand is why if user has kernel-desktop and not kernel-rc installed it does this with kernel headers.
Whether this makes any difference I donāt know.
To get around this you have to tell dnf a specific version of kernel headers. It is irritating.
Now what I was trying to get to in my test is if I install nvidia-legacy-dkms-kmod and related packages for kernel 6.1.1, and that is the only kernel on the system, reboot and run sudo dnf --refresh dsync if it would install the new kernel 6.1.4. It did not. The dsync process does work it just skips the kernel packages. The dsync will install packages that go with the kernel like cpupower-6.1.4-1 and lib64bpf1-6.1.4-1 but not the kernel packages. Not what I want to see from dkmsbut is this test in VBox valid?
This does tell me something I was not sure about. If user installs the nvidia packages the system will still upgrade (dsync) but the upgrade skips any kernel that does not have nvidia packages to go with it. This seems like a good thing and what nvidia users would want.
Ah. That would make a difference then, afaik. On Fedora the rc kernel is in the rawhide repo, not the standard repo so that canāt happen. Iām not too sure where to go next with this tbh, probably booting back into my bare metal OM Rome install would be a good start!
Yes. First we need for someone with nvidia hardware to confirm whether the nvidia-dkms-kmod and nvidia-legacy-dkms-kmod will install withour error, if the graphics work as they shoud, and finally if when user upgrades and there is a new kernel if the kernel modules get built and nvidia stuff continues to work.
My bare-metal OM Rome install works fine with the dkms drivers, and Iām fairly sure there were no errors on the install / build process. Iām not sure if the legacy drivers will appreciate my GTX1650, but I can give it a try.
That looks okay (to me). If everything is working, then I wouldnāt worry at this point, but as you can see from the conversation the dkms install is a bit of a work-in-progress at the moment!
