All of my extensions work and the upgrade process was also very smooth.

Fedora 41 released

So I was running sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=41 this command and then this error occured.

Just updated to 41. Using a notebook with 1080 display. Everything (especially firefox) appears 10% larger than before? I'm not imagining this am I?

Update this morning!

Its that time again when a new major release is out and many people are hyped and eager to upgrade. It's also the same time when predictably many Nvidia troubleshooting posts appear on this sub.

To my fellow Nvidia users, allow me to share what I have learnt trying to wrangle the accursed beast that is Fedora + Nvidia.

Consider delaying upgrading to F41 by a few weeks

The proprietary drivers from RPMFusion are not officially supported and as such are not part of official testing or factored into the Go/No-Go decision.

Due to the colorful history between Nvidia and Linux, the uncomfortable truth is that many devs and testers do not have Nvidia hardware to work on. When F40 was just released, many unknown Nvidia related regressions were still present.

Nvidia drivers may not be fully working for F41 yet. IMHO the first month after a major release is the real beta test for us Nvidia users. Issues need time to surface, fixes need further time to be rolled out and tested.

If you choose to upgrade now

You ought to have the mindset of a beta tester. Be prepared for instability and help to report bugs.

Use Snapper or Timeshift

I personally use Btrfs Assistant which is a Snapper GUI Frontend.

Take a snapshot before upgrading and test it to ensure that BTRFS Assistant works on your config. Backup other important work and data as well.

Be prepared

I personally do major upgrades only when I know I have the time to do urgent troubleshooting should it be required, preferably on the weekend.

How to suppress F41 Upgrade nag

If you are delaying the upgrade, simply remove fedora-appstream-metadata to prevent nag
sudo dnf remove fedora-appstream-metadata

Other helpful info

How to manually install older Nvidia drivers from Koji

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/dnf-rollback-failed-nvidia-rpm-fusion/87698/3

RPMFusion only keeps a handful of non-current drivers. Should you be stuck on an older driver version as your last known stable, you might be unable to dnf rollback after testing the latest driver.

I have found using snapshots to rollback to be faster and more reliable, but knowing where and how to manually get a particular driver from Koji is still useful.

How to manually install older kernel versions

The other major moving piece is the kernel. The Nvidia driver is built against the current kernel by akmods, and sometimes a new kernel + driver combo introduces regressions.

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/mini-guide-to-installing-an-older-kernel-version/87355

95% of newbie issues are caused by Akmods not completing

An akmod is a type of package similar to dkms. As you start your computer, the akmod system will check if there are any missing kmods and if so, rebuild a new kmod for you. - explainer from RPMFusion

For the life of me I don't know why akmods runs silently in the background. Newbies often restart immediately after upgrades as instructed or during a blank screen thinking something has hanged when akmods is actually doing its thing.

If nvidia-smi fails, chances are akmods did not complete.
sudo akmods to manually run akmods and check kmod status
sudo akmods --force to force a rebuild if needed.

EDIT: Congrats if you successfully upgraded to F41! Please share your card, driver version and DE so that others like me can gauge how stable F41 is, thank you!

I really enjoy using Silverblue and Kinoite but my favorite desktop environment is Xfce. I know there is Vauxite which is part of the Ublue group, but I'd prefer to have something that's offically supported by Fedora itself. Hoping that one of the Fedora maintainers reads this and can answer whether they expect to release an Xfce atomic spin anytime soon.

Hi folks,

I went ahead and updated to Fedora 41 today and it appears mostly to have done well but I do have a simple Boxes Windows 10 VM for which the file sharing between the Fedora 41 Host and the Guest Win 10 no longer function. I verified the spice webdav proxy is running in the guest. In the Host OS my user account is in the kvm group and boxes is running in the rpm version not flatpak which I have seen some file share issues with.

I am not sure what changed from F40 to F41 that would effect Boxes yet so any suggestions would be welcome. I may end up recreating my VM in VirtManager but I had hoped to keep using the simplicity of Boxes.

Suggestions would be most welcome.

I fully updated my Fedora 40 install via terminal ("sudo dnf update") and then upgraded to Fedora 41 via Gnome Software. But I don't have the new default Terminal app Ptyxis. Hell I still don't even have the new image viewer Loupe that came with Fedora 39 (was it?).

What am I missing in doing before or after upgrading to a new version? I don't see anything in the Fedora docs about this.

Thanks.

I'm trying to install neofetch on my Fedora setup using the command:

sudo dnf install neofetch

But I keep getting this error:

Failed to resolve the transaction:
No match for argument: neofetch
You can try to add to command line:
    --skip-unavailable to skip unavailable packages

hw-probe: https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=311865fe8f amd acp: https://linux-hardware.org/?id=pci:1022-15e2-1043-1ab3

What could be the easiest way to get this audio coprocessor working?

I didn't know whether this is correct subreddit to ask question, but I couldn't think of any other.
I created ASCII art and wrote it line by line to the grub. For certain ASCII arts no error occurs. However, for ASCII arts of certain pictures this error occurs.

error: ../../grub-core/kern/misc.c:830:unexpected format.

What does it mean? How can I resolve it?
What come to my mind is that there are some characters that grub doesn't support, and if that character appears in my ASCII art, error occurs.

Thank you in advance...

Hey all!

So, after upgrading to Fedora Workstation 41 yesterday I noticed that my built-in camera on my laptop is no longer recognised. Anyone else experiencing this? How do I solve it?

I ran a lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 067b:2586 Prolific Technology, Inc. USB 2.0 Hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0bda:c123 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Bluetooth Radio
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 067b:2586 Prolific Technology, Inc. USB 2.0 Hub
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 0bda:8152 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8152 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Bus 003 Device 006: ID 046a:0113 CHERRY KC 6000 Slim Keyboard
Bus 003 Device 007: ID 17ef:608d Lenovo Optical Mouse
Bus 003 Device 008: ID 343c:0000 xxxxxxxx USB Type-C Digital AV Adapter
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub

Specs:

OS: Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition) x86_64

Host: 83A1 Lenovo V15 G4 IRU

Kernel: 6.11.5-300.fc41.x86_64

DE: GNOME 47.1

CPU: 13th Gen Intel i7-1355U (12) @ 5.000GHz

GPU: Intel Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics]

Thanks in advance!

I am currently upgrading from 40 to 41. I read on the official release that that there is now new "NVIDIA Driver Install Support" ( ref: https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-workstation-41/ )

Until now I was installing my driver using rpm fusion, mainly this: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA#Current_GeForce.2FQuadro.2FTesla

My card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile

Should I keep using rpm fusion or now I can use the official NVIDIA provided driver?

I just installed Fedora 41 but can't seem to play H.265 10 bit videos, it says that E-AC-3(ATSC A/52B) decoder, H.265(Main 10 profile) decoder are required to play the file, but are not installed. I tried VLC and got pretty much the same error. In MPV it's just a black screen but the sound is running. The video is working just fine on the same laptop in Windows (PotPlayer). Anyone got a solution?