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This process may potentially render your NVIDIA device unusable or brick your system in case of an unsuccessful installation. Search the NVIDIA driver page and download the latest drivers supported by your device before uninstalling or making changes.

The device drivers are causing issues like crashes after installingīefore proceeding, make a backup of your system files and all the drivers.

Installation of different brand of GPUs.

To disable the hardware associated with the device.

Performance issues with hardware or software.

Compatibility issues with software, hardware or both.

A user may uninstall their device’s graphics drivers for the following reasons: Since RL9 release and elrepo not making nvidia packages, I believe the way forward now is to use the rpmfusion repositories.Nvidia drivers are the software that help your operating system communicate with the graphics card or related hardware components. At least when I’ve gone through it twice anyhow. I thought a dnf reinstall would help, but it seems only a completely remove and install will work. If it occurs again, I’ll have to dig deeper in the logs and find out why.

So, I could have caused it myself due to installing unnecessary kmod packages that might have caused a conflict. Time will tell if it occurs again during the next distro upgrade in about 6 months or so. From when I fixed it again recently, like a week or so ago after upgrading I removed all the nvidia stuff, and then just installed akmod-nvidia to get it back again. However that said, I believe I might have also messed it up the first time I experienced it, as I found I also had kmod-nvidia packages also installed. Now I’m not sure if the distro upgrade process is involved in it or not. I experienced it twice, recently when upgrading FC36 to FC37. On OP topic, what would make the akmod to fail to build on boot and how to diagnose/avoid that?