I used Fedora since RedHat6.0 on and off...and at one point I was able to go from completely off, power on, bios, post, and runlevel 6, and open a browser and be browsing in under 10 seconds...this was around 2008.

Today, (since my last build) it's failing on first boot, reboots with a fedora badge at the bottom of the screen, then takes about 5 minutes to load up .e16 as my dafault wm.

I don't remember spending more than 30 minutes setting up my system in 2008 and want to replicate that if possible.

Hey everyone,

I'm pretty new to Fedora KDE, and there's one thing that's been driving me a little crazy.

Almost every time I open Discover, it says there are updates available. Yesterday I updated everything manually through the terminal, it finished successfully, but when I opened Discover again later, it was still showing updates.

At this point I just turned on automatic updates because I got tired of worrying about it, but I still keep seeing update notifications.

Is this just how Fedora works, or is something wrong with my system?

Do Fedora users just live with this, or is there actually a way to fix it? I'm enjoying Fedora a lot so far, but constantly seeing updates makes me feel like something isn't working properly.

Hello everyone,

I have been using Fedora for 2 years now and I have always used the RPM Fusion repository for getting my Nvidia drivers and it has been the best way of doing things so far on Fedora. As long as you can read directions, getting the driver is super easy. I then decided to try out Enterprise Linux 9 to get certain software (Autodesk Maya, Houdini, Mari). Given that they are Fedora based I tried to get my Nvidia drivers off of RPM Fusion. However, every time I used RPM Fusion for the Nvidia on EL9, they never worked as nicely as they do in Fedora, despite being based on the same software stack. I then saw that Rocky Linux recommends actually getting the driver off of Nvidia's official Cuda repository, instead of RPM Fusion, and those drivers worked amazingly well, even after upgrading my kernel to kernel-ml. Nvidia even has a page on their site all about Fedora and how to get their drivers from them.

So now I am wondering if people have gotten the drivers through Nvidia's repository rather than RPM Fusion. Has anyone done this? Is this like how Terra packages the Nvidia Driver? Are there differences in how frequently the drivers are updated? Is this because its best practice not to have too many repositories in DNF at once?

Thanks

Okay so here's what's been happening whenever I start my laptop

1. It keeps going into https boot and fails to detect ip, so I have to force start it by pressing the power button - I have to do this multiple times to get to the grub menu

2. Once I get to grub and select fedora , its stuck at the loading screen, I have attached an image showing what happens here

After going through the same cycle multiple times yesterday, I was able to log into fedora

Can y'all please help me out I am not able to access my system and I have exams going on

Any help/advice would be appreciated

Edit: Solved in comments

Hi all, new Fedora user here! I've managed to get rpm steam installed and ran games on it but now they do not launch at all. I hit play and it says launching and back to play. I have tried:

Using Proton Experimental

Restarting
sudo dnf downgrade 'mesa*'
steam -reset

Reinstalling steam
Using flatpak steam (did not work well for my situation)

System:
 Host: fedora Kernel: 7.1.4-204.fc44.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.7.3 Distro: Fedora Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop
   Edition)
Machine:
 Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B450M-A v: Rev X.0x
   serial: <superuser required> Firmware: UEFI vendor: American Megatrends
   v: 4202 date: 06/16/2023
CPU:
 Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: L2: 3 MiB
 Speed (MHz): avg: 3499 min/max: 561/4654 cores: 1: 3499 2: 3499 3: 3499
   4: 3499 5: 3499 6: 3499 7: 3499 8: 3499 9: 3499 10: 3499 11: 3499 12: 3499
Graphics:
 Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 22 [Radeon RX 6700/6700
   XT/6750 XT / 6800M/6850M XT] driver: amdgpu v: kernel
 Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.13 compositor: kwin_wayland
   driver: gpu: amdgpu resolution: 1: 1920x1080~165Hz 2: 1680x1050~60Hz
 API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: radeonsi,swrast
   platforms: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device
 API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: amd mesa v: 26.1.5 renderer: AMD Radeon RX
   6700 XT (radeonsi navi22 ACO DRM 3.64 7.1.4-204.fc44.x86_64)
 API: Vulkan v: 1.4.341 drivers: radv,llvmpipe surfaces: N/A
 Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
   de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo,
   xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
 Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio
   driver: snd_hda_intel
 Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio
   driver: snd_hda_intel
 Device-3: DCMT USB Condenser Microphone
   driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB
 API: ALSA v: k7.1.4-204.fc44.x86_64 status: kernel-api
 Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.6.8 status: active
Network:
 Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
   driver: r8169
 IF: enp7s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: d4:5d:64:ee:68:35
Drives:
 Local Storage: total: 1.68 TiB used: 394.89 GiB (23.0%)
 ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST3500418AS size: 465.76 GiB
 ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD3200AAJS-60B4A0
   size: 298.09 GiB
 ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: HP model: SSD S750 1TB size: 953.87 GiB
Partition:
 ID-1: / size: 747.62 GiB used: 140.8 GiB (18.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0
 ID-2: /boot size: 1.9 GiB used: 625.1 MiB (32.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc5
 ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 46.6 MiB (7.8%) fs: vfat
   dev: /dev/sdc1
 ID-4: /home size: 747.62 GiB used: 140.8 GiB (18.8%) fs: btrfs
   dev: /dev/dm-0
Swap:
 ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
 System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 54.0 C
 Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
 Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.24 GiB used: 7.79 GiB (24.9%)
 Processes: 459 Uptime: 45m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.41

Any help is appreciated!

I am having a terrible day and now it just got worse:( I am sure there is an easy solution out there but I could not find it so I am making a post in hopes somebody knows what to do. I had an rx 580 in the system prior, but it is artifacting, so I swapped in a GTX 1060 3gb.

I enabled rpm fusion nonfree Nvidia drivers and nonfree steam. It was using nouveau drivers so I blacklisted it using a conf in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf and adding these 2 lines

blacklist nouveau

options nouveau modeset=0

The system boots but no display and I am unsure where to go from here. Any help would be appreciated

From what I read after messing this up, it seems like the GPU is too old to use those commands, but this is still new to me so feel free to correct my mistakes. Thank you for any help:)

Hi, on my Dell Inspiron N5110, I installed Windows 10 but I did it after Installing Linux so now I can't seem to get in Fedora. I wanted to Dualboot Fedora and Windows but seems like I gotta regenerate Grub? Thanks for your time.

Relatively new to linux / fedora and I can’t seem to get nvidia drivers to work with fedora kde 44. The moment I install drivers my session manager just crashes after trying to login. Can I please be pointed to what I’m doing wrong?

(CPU: 5950x, GPU: RTX 3070)

I'm trying to check my nvidia drivers by installing the controll panal on discover, I don't know what I did wrong, I feel like its one problem after another, why can't I do anything right. :(

I didn't change anything recently so I have no clue why this is happening. It wasn't even a Fedora update.

So I bought external speakers for my brother, the speakers are the Tempest M50 Victory.

They work perfectly when watching videos, shows, etc. But once my brother starts a game they don't make any sound. The sound comes back and goes away randomly.

What's even weirder is that in some games the sound works perfectly, it never goes away but in other games it randomly has no sound and then has sound.

This is such a strange issue, never seen this happen before.

Please does someone know a solution? I've been searching everywhere but seems nobody has had this problem.

I don't know if this is an issue with the speakers themselves or the compatibility with Linux

trying to get a icon from app to show in my taskbar and the code they said to put in gives error

I bought this HP 250 G10 laptop a while ago that has Realtek RTL8852BE WiFi integrated and when I first got it it was all wonky with WiFi and it kept disconnecting randomly, so I had to get some cheap AC WiFi USB dongle just to have a WiFi I can actually use. Then with updates, this resolved and this WiFi was working smoothly with no issues and no need for USB dongle. Till recently, maybe like 3 days ago. Now it's just disappearing entirely. I'll boot up laptop, it'll connect, I browse and poof, there is just no WiFi listed at all and it disconnects. I need to reboot PC for it to appear again until it just disappears again.

How can it go from broken to fully fixed to now more broken than it was few months ago!?!?!?

Sorry for asking a noob question, I switched to linux couple of months ago and haven’t updated to 44 yet. How do I update? Do I need to reinstall stuff like my nvidia driver after update(I have a 3060 ti)? Do I need to keep backup of stuff from my home directory?

I have a dell inspiron 5490 AIO and it has IR camera , Im useing gaze for facial unlock , but it shows no IR sensors , any one know what I got to do to get them to work ?

It started with me wanting to try some distros I tried installing qubes and bazzite and neither of them worked showed an word with the anaconda installer, fedora slowed the same exact error. How do I fix it? Can't post a pic beacose it ain't a Saturday, I understand it's probably a sarcastic rule but I got temp banned from Reddit for too many times for too many stupid reasons

Hi everyone,

I’ve a dual boot on my laptop with no problem with a rtx 3060 gpu with Fedora 42. I upgraded it to fedora 44 and no problem at all.

I wanted after several months to take the path of dual boot on my desktop mainly for solo gaming and watching a videos.

I’ve currently a ryzen 7600 and a rtx 5070ti on my desktop.
I use the media writer for fedora 44 on my usb key then installed Fedora 44 on my second ssd.

I followed everything on this repo on GitHub (I have secure boot enabled and yes I generated and enrolled the key), activate rpm fusion and installed nvidia drivers :

https://github.com/devangshekhawat/Fedora-44-Post-Install-Guide

I waited even more than 5 min after installing the drivers.

After the reboot I got a black screen not even possible to access encryption passphrase or login screen.

I press on e during the grub screen and add nomodeset to passing through the blackscreen, uninstalling, installing again akmods and cuda, force and regenerate all with akmods and dracut and still the same problem. Nvidia-smi return the correct version of nvidia drivers, I’ve lines returned in the initramfs with nvidia keyword.

Troubleshooting for hours to in the end deleting all the partitions and maybe using it for another distro or juste give up and use it for extra storage for my games on windows.

I’ve already post a question similar to linux4noobs with the same subject. I tried again and still doesn’t work. Only message I got was to try other distro based on Fedora (like nobara or Bazzite) but I prefere to use directly the original distro with my own config and packages I want to have.

I don’t know how or where to start again with Fedora especially with my config. Does anyone have the same issue ?

Thanks in advance everyone !

Hello, I have attempted to research the Flatpak vs RPM fusion steam and from what I can find the flatpak is more secure as it offers bwrap protection from flatpak sandboxing.

I noticed that the flatpak now allows you to discover other drives now without having to specify in flatseal and I can set them up with ease so that lead to me wondering how much is the flatpak really protecting?

The reason this is so important to me is I am running some modded games, and from what I understand about video game mods is they’re running at the same user-level permissions that you are logged in as and with a flatpak stuff like my ssh keys, login tokens ect are more protected if there’s a security event and from what I think I understand is SELinux would not stop an event since they would be running at a user level.

I know steam has a pressure vessel or something that is a sandbox as well, but thought the flatpak was an additional layer of security.

Is the flatpak really going to help when running game mods? I think it will? I am hoping someone knowledgable in this area can help explain what its protecting if anything at all compared to the native rpm steam.

I don’t have any problem playing any game, just mostly concerned about running mods since they run at a user level permissions from what i think I know.

Thank you!

So I have been suffering with my wifi in linux for a while now. The reason I had to switch to so many distribution (ubuntu → linux mint → pop os → fedora → cachy os) is because of my Realtek RTL8723de wifi adapter. Whenever I reboot/power on my laptop 3/5 times my wifi would disappear. I would have to restart my system again for the wifi to come back. Only in fedora the probability is a little less, it’s 1/5 times. I couldn’t figure out the reason why this happened. My wifi drivers works fine in windows. Because I am tired of Microslop, I seriously decided to fix this issue.

The reason of disappearance was aspm(active state power management). So I had to disable it. For that I go to /etc/modprobe.d, create a conf file rtw88.conf. Then add this command inside it.

options rtw88_pci disable_aspm=y

this solved my problem mostly. Now when I restart/power on my laptop it works without any problem. This is not the first time I tried this fix but previously this fix did not work properly. It did reduce the probability of wifi going full john cena but not fix it. But this time it worked pretty well and fix the issue completely.

have you guys faced similar issue with your wifi drivers in linux, do share you experience.

If you want to see learn more about my particular issue and how I fixed it, you can watch this YoTube video
https://youtu.be/hH8TBrOdbWE

So, I am trying to use LocalSend as means to send MP3s I have downloaded to my iPhone to listen to on the music app. I saw someone else on here mention in a now archived post that they'd had some success in doing this, but all I have managed to do is get it into Files. Anything I can do to get an MP3 from my computer (Fedora) to Music on my phone would make me happy at this point.

[SOLVED]

I recently uppated to kernel 7.1.4 on Fedora 44 KDE Plasma Edition. it had the above mentioned error (see pics).

I searched a little bit and found that I can try regenerating the initramfs with

sudo dracut --generate-all --force

And rebooted to find out now all of kernel versions are stuck at this mentioned error.

I have access to GRUB and Rescue kernel(it suggest it is in emergency mode) but I don't remember the root password(sorry).

I have the following hardware.

ASUS Vivobook X1504ZA

Intel i5-1235U

20 gigs of Ram

I also have Windows installed, maybe I can try something from it.

Any help would be appreciated. Help This is an emergency.

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