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Hello guys & gals, I recently distro hopped to fedora and I'm having problems getting the NVIDIA driver to properly work. I get a error when booting that says "Nvidia kernal module missing - falling back to noveau" I've tried the following;

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/nvidia-kernel-module-missing-falling-back-to-nouveau-during-update/89801

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/711756/fedora-nvidia-kernel-module-missing-falling-back-to-nouveau

I should note this is a laptop and my GPU is a 1660Ti and I can toggle the iGPU from the bios.

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[–] Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Did you install the driver from:

Or if Intel/Optimus:

I'm not on normal Fedora myself anymore.

Or try Bazzite or Project Bluefin baked in already: