Note: Make sure to Disable Secure Boot, else whatever you do it won’t work :)

Install & Switch to NVIDIA

1. Install the required dependencies

sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda

2. Edit the environment configuration file for your shell

sudo nano /etc/environment

3. Add the following lines to enable the GPU

__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1
__VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only

4. Restart the system

sudo reboot

5. Check the status of the currently selected GPU

glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"

thisisyaash@yaashs-fedora:~$ glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"
OpenGL renderer string: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2

It will show the result something like this with the respective gpu information

If the above steps didn’t worked, then follow the below steps :)

1. Veriify the NVIDIA Kernel Module:

lsmod | grep nvidia

If no output then it’s not loaded, else Good!

2. Reinstall the NVIDIA drivers

  • check whether the NVIDIA driver is connected
/sbin/lspci | grep -e VGA
  • remove existing drivers
sudo dnf remove *nvidia*
  • reinstall the NVIDIA driver
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
  • rebuild the kernel
sudo akmods --force
  • ensure the NVIDIA modules are loaded
sudo modprobe nvidia
lsmod | grep nvidia
  • reboot
sudo reboot