Why is installing Nvidia drivers so hard in rhel/fedora?

max.b · 11-15-2021, 09:24 PM

In debian, you just enable non-free and do

apt install nvidia-driver

Which is a metapackage.

Why don't rhel/fedora make it similarly easy?

GentleThotSeaMonkey · 11-15-2021, 09:39 PM

reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/jk604s/nvidia_drivers has some ideas.

Highlighting this Thread's Title and right clicking to 'Web search'
returned a LOT of ideas for me.
I suggest (OP only) adding to the web-search: site:reddit.com

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Thank you for sharing. Have a nice day.

max.b · 11-15-2021, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by GentleThotSeaMonkey

reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/jk604s/nvidia_drivers has some ideas.

Highlighting this Thread's Title and right clicking to 'Web search'
returned a LOT of ideas for me.
I suggest (OP only) adding to the web-search: site:reddit.com

That's about how to install them.

My question is why it's not exactly as easy. Why several commands instead of one?

shruggy · 11-16-2021, 01:25 AM

From Fedora’s Mission and Foundations:

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We choose free alternatives to proprietary code and content and limit the effects of proprietary or patent encumbered code on the Project.

Sometimes this goal prevents us from taking the easy way out by including proprietary or patent encumbered software in Fedora.

max.b · 11-21-2021, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by shruggy

From Fedora’s Mission and Foundations:

Same as Debian in this regard, isn't it?

shruggy · 11-21-2021, 02:08 PM

Not quite. The Debian repository has a non-free section.

Brains · 12-18-2021, 02:27 AM

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Red Hat, Inc. is an American IBM subsidiary software company that provides open source software products to enterprises

CentOS & Fedora are development platforms for Red Hat.
The quote above pretty much tells you High end gaming computers are not the computers this OS would typically be installed on, cheap workstations and headless servers is the most likely type of hardware they need to worry about.

It's designed for production, give them a 3D graphics card and all they'll do is play games, 3D not wanted in production zone.

syg00 · 12-18-2021, 02:38 AM

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Originally Posted by max.b

In debian, you just enable non-free and do ...

Doesn't show much knowledge of the machinations within the Debian community re non-free inclusions.

Brains · 12-18-2021, 03:03 AM

Nvidia for Fedora I believe is community driven, RPM Fusion being popular.
But it's simple, Red Hat makes money and enthusiasts are not their target market so don't expect seamless multimedia support or full hardware support for every computer found on store shelves.

6th_sense · 02-02-2022, 09:27 AM

Not sure why you seem to think it is a lot of commands... I have the Nvidia card on Fedora on a Thinkpad and all I do is run a terminal as soon as I log in, switch to a CLI using "init 3" and then run the Nvidia-Installer - it does everything and then I switch back to X-Window System using "init 5". Essentially, just change the runlevels and you should be golden.

As for how it is automated in Debian - I don't know.

-6th

rdsherman · 02-02-2022, 03:26 PM

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I have the Nvidia card on Fedora on a Thinkpad ...

Which model is yours?

Has anyone tried the proprietary NVIDIA driver on the Lenovo Thinkpad P17? If so, please describe its behavior.

ondoho · 02-03-2022, 02:55 AM

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Originally Posted by 6th_sense

Not sure why you seem to think it is a lot of commands.

"You" is OP, and has been banned a while ago.
I'm not saying you're not allowed to continue posting, but keep in mind that they were banned for constantly (and solely) creating controversy.
Maybe there is no "issue" here, besides that.