Any updates on this? I’m literally waiting for this to use OMLx 4.1 as my main desktop.
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As far as I know, the drivers are ready and we have confirmation that they work well.
Unfortunately, I am unable to confirm their installation method (I do not have a nvidia card.) The best way to install drivers is to ask their maintainer: @Colin or wait for an official announcement.
I suspect (but that’s just my suspicion) that to install the drivers just activate the testing repository and then sudo dnf install nvidia-440
You can also try download and install packages from testing repo manually: Build list - Project openmandriva/nvidia-440 - ABF
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Post-edit: I moved these packages to updates repos.
Basically adding copy and paste commands to what @AngryPenguin posted. I think the current Lx 4.1 packages were built for kernel 5.5.4 and you would need to be logged in to that kernel to install these.
I think this would work:
$ sudo dnf install nvidia-440 --enablerepo rock-updates-x86_64-non-free
or
For some older nvdia hardware there is also nvidia-390 package.
$ sudo dnf install nvidia-390 --enablerepo rock-updates-x86_64-non-free
We need for @Colin to announce these and explain how they work. As I understood from watching them testing these user should just install these and reboot.
Is it installable on znver1 version?
Yes.
$ sudo dnf install nvidia-440 --enablerepo rock-updates-znver1-non-free
or
For some older nvdia hardware there is also nvidia-390 package.
$ sudo dnf install nvidia-390 --enablerepo rock-updates-znver1-non-free
and reboot.
Ben,
Thank you for your instructions.
I confirm Nvidia driver works great if installed from shell as you suggested.
Unfortunately the presence in Dnfdragora of Nvidia drivers is misleading (and useless).
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“just activate the testing repository” – I should be able to figure that out but maybe not.
I just acquired an HP Z400 tower, with an Nvidia card. I have identified and downloaded the correct driver. Just can’t find any specific instructions for installing it. I hope what you just gave me works.
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Full disclosure: I do not currently have nvidia hardware. I have had it in the past.
It is in the instructions in this post above in this thread. In the command string the option --enablerepo rock-updates-x86_64-non-free tells dnf to use the non-free repo. This will only use non-free repo for this command and does not enable the non-free repo permanently.
So you have two choices either the 440 driver or 390 driver. Most likely one of them will work for you and most users. The 440 covers current hardware and 390 covers older “legacy” hardware. If you can post output of this command (on the computer with nvidia hardware):
$ inxi -G
If you don’t know which you need we will be happy to check. If either is appropriate you just install the driver and reboot.
One thing to be aware of is that nvidia proprietary drivers are kernel specific. That means a given nvidia package must go with the exact kernel version it is designed for.
In OM Lx 4.1 that won’t be a problem because there most probably will not be any more kernel upgrades. But something to be aware of going forward if you use these drivers. New kernel=new nvidia package or nvidia driver will not work. This is easy to deal with but users tend to forget this.
Post-edit: Hope this information is helpful. nvidia is one of the more difficult things we have to deal with in Linux. The company nVidia is arguably the least “Linux friendly” of all.
How to use nvidia control panel, nvdia-setting?
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Welcome @Mytagen. Hoping you enjoy OpenMandriva Lx.
I don’t have nVidia hardware.
Not sure what you mean? As I understand things nvidia-settings is the nvidia control panel. So you installed one of the OpenMandriva nvidia packages and nvidia-settings is not in the application menu on your computer?
Remembering from when I did have nVidia hardware: One way to do this is to open Konsole and open nvidia-settings like this:
If on KDE/Plasma desktop:
$ kdesu nvidia-settings
otherwise:
$ sudo nvidia-settings
In OM Lx 4.1 zenver VBox VM:
Don’t know how valid this test is but I installed nvidia-440 package in a VBox VM. There is no entry for nvidia-settings that I can find in Application Menu. When I try to launch nvidia-settings from Konsole I get
Cannot execute command: ‘nvidia-settings’.
Using sudo I get:
$ sudo nvidia-settings
[sudo] password for ben79:
sudo: nvidia-settings: command not found
With these installed:
$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia
nvidia-440-kernel-modules-server-440.64-2.znver1
nvidia-440-440.64-2.znver1
and booted to this kernel:
$ uname -a
Linux ben-vbox 5.5.12-server-1omv4001
I also noticed that even though I have kernel-release-desktop the nvidia-440 package insisted to install:
kernel-release-server
nvidia-440-kernel-modules-server-440.64-2
That seems incorrect. if the modules package is needed it should install the modules for kernel-release-desktop and not install another unneeded kernel. But is this something happening because I tested in VBox VM?
However I don’t know if the lack of nvidia-settings is because it is missing from our package or if it won’t run because there is no nvidia hardware. So we really need some nvidia users to confirm or inform us of what they actually are seeing.
[evgeny@evgeny-ms7b89 ~]$ sudo nvidia-settings
[sudo] пароль для evgeny:
sudo: nvidia-settings: command not found
[evgeny@evgeny-ms7b89 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia
nvidia-440-kernel-modules-desktop-440.64-2.znver1
nvidia-440-440.64-2.znver1
[evgeny@evgeny-ms7b89 ~]$ uname -a
Linux evgeny-ms7b89 5.5.12-desktop-1omv4001
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Does not work
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Post-edit: Thanks for reporting this.
OK, thanks I’ll report this to developers.
I also have been trying to get the Display Configuration
System Settings to recognize the NVIDIA drivers so it will allow higher resolution options than the sole 1024x768 currently available and hopefully the option to mirror dual monitors like I have set up on Zorin 15.3.
Thank you in advance for your efforts.
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Welcome @don. Hoping you enjoy OpenMandriva Lx.
Could be wrong but I don’t recall that KDE/Plasma desktop SystemSettings5 has ever recognized nvidia proprietary drivers. That is why it is so important to have nvidia-settings which OpemMandriva’s nvidia driver packages are missing.
To be fair the OM nvidia -440 and nvidia-390 packages were as I recall introduced as “for testing” or “experimental”. Initially we did not get much feed back from community about these. So the person that builds these packages, @Colin, and I did not know till yesterday that nvida-settings was not present.
@Colin is working on this but he has a lot of other demands on his time lately away from OM so may take some days to get this, one never knows.
Looks like nvidia-settings is not part of the driver .rpm but is a separate package. I seem to remember having to install that some years ago when I had nvidia hardware.
Packages with nvidia-settings available here.
The nvidia-settings utility may be necessary to use nvidia driver with TV as monitor. Also may be necessary for dual monitor set-ups.