Been running Fedora 40 for a few months, and having a hard time keeping Wayland as the desktop environment. Just did a fresh install, and the Nvidia driver updates to 555.58.02. I really want to stick with the Recommended branch, not the New Feature branch. Every update, Wayland breaks. How do I rollback to 550, and switch to the Recommended Branch for updates?

  • Sam Black@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Sorry for not replying sooner, life stuff.

    I’ve had problems with the 555 driver like KDE’s lock screen would freeze for up to 30 seconds whilst trying to unlock and resuming from suspend resulted in a black screen.

    So I went back to the 550 driver - I’ve uploaded the RPMs/SRPMs that I use; https://misc.lapwing.org/rpms/nvidia-550/

    Please note this is just a dump of RPMs/SRPMs and not a repo, so it’s just a stop gap until 560 arrives and (hopefully) fixes my issues.

    You will probably have to fight dnf a bit to get it to actually replace the 555 RPMs, but I’ve not had a recurrence and the akmod dance works just as jankily well as before.

  • Fliegenpilzgünni@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago

    You could maybe try Bazzite or Aurora/Bluefin.

    They are all Fedora Atomic, the “immutable” Fedora variant, and offer baked in Nvidia support.

    The cool thing is:

    1. If the driver/ Wayland breaks on your install, then it will break on thousands of others simultaneously, and the devs can fix it very very quickly, because every installation is identical.
    2. If it breaks, you can roll back in seconds and keep using the image that still worked yesterday. And in the meantime, the developers are already working on a fix, which takes just hours or a day max.
    3. You don’t have to install and update anything yourself. Just do your computer stuff and stop worrying.
    4. There’s also a GTS (or whatever it’s called) variant around, which is the last major version of Fedora. You won’t get the newest stuff and will be half a year behind in terms of features, but then there won’t be any surprises. I believe the bluefin:gts isn’t around yet, but will come with the next major release.
    • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      That’s not what OP was asking for though. And I don’t understand why the Linux user community on Lemmy pushes immutable distros so hard.