Hi. I am distro-hopping and I am trying out openmamba.
I just ran into an issue while installing nvidia-470.
sudo dnf install xorg-drv-video-nvidia_470
Last metadata expiration check: 0:07:05 ago on dom 2 feb 2025, 16:13:59.
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Architecture Version Repository Size
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Installing:
xorg-drv-video-nvidia_470 x86_64 1:470.199.02-1mamba rolling 270 M
Installing dependencies:
dkms x86_64 3.1.4-1mamba rolling 64 k
gcc x86_64 14.2.1+20240909git.3951efed-2mamba rolling 187 M
gcc-cpp x86_64 14.2.1+20240909git.3951efed-2mamba rolling 985 k
kernel-mamba-x86_64-headers x86_64 6.6.67-1mamba rolling 19 M
libgo x86_64 14.2.1+20240909git.3951efed-2mamba rolling 8.0 M
libisl x86_64 0.27-1mamba rolling 890 k
libmpc x86_64 1.3.1-1mamba rolling 97 k
libnvidia-egl-wayland x86_64 1.1.17-1mamba rolling 48 k
Transaction Summary
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Install 9 Packages
Total size: 486 M
Installed size: 1.2 G
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
[SKIPPED] dkms-3.1.4-1mamba.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded
[SKIPPED] gcc-14.2.1+20240909git.3951efed-2mamba.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded
[SKIPPED] gcc-cpp-14.2.1+20240909git.3951efed-2mamba.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded
[SKIPPED] kernel-mamba-x86_64-headers-6.6.67-1mamba.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded
[SKIPPED] libgo-14.2.1+20240909git.3951efed-2mamba.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded
[SKIPPED] libisl-0.27-1mamba.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded
[SKIPPED] libmpc-1.3.1-1mamba.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded
[SKIPPED] libnvidia-egl-wayland-1.1.17-1mamba.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded
[SKIPPED] xorg-drv-video-nvidia_470-470.199.02-1mamba.x86_64.rpm: Already downloaded
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Preparing : 1/1
Installing : libnvidia-egl-wayland-1.1.17-1mamba.x86_64 1/9
Installing : libmpc-1.3.1-1mamba.x86_64 2/9
Running scriptlet: libmpc-1.3.1-1mamba.x86_64 2/9
Installing : libisl-0.27-1mamba.x86_64 3/9
Installing : libgo-14.2.1+20240909git.3951efed-2mamba.x86_64 4/9
Installing : gcc-cpp-14.2.1+20240909git.3951efed-2mamba.x86_64 5/9
Installing : gcc-14.2.1+20240909git.3951efed-2mamba.x86_64 6/9
Installing : dkms-3.1.4-1mamba.x86_64 7/9
Running scriptlet: dkms-3.1.4-1mamba.x86_64 7/9
Created symlink '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/dkms.service' → '/usr/lib/systemd/system/dkms.service'.
Installing : kernel-mamba-x86_64-headers-6.6.67-1mamba.x86_64 8/9
Running scriptlet: kernel-mamba-x86_64-headers-6.6.67-1mamba.x86_64 8/9
Installing : xorg-drv-video-nvidia_470-1:470.199.02-1mamba.x86_64 9/9
Running scriptlet: xorg-drv-video-nvidia_470-1:470.199.02-1mamba.x86_64 9/9
Running scriptlet: dkms-3.1.4-1mamba.x86_64 9/9
find: ‘/var/lib/dkms/*/*/source’: No such file or directory
Running scriptlet: xorg-drv-video-nvidia_470-1:470.199.02-1mamba.x86_64 9/9
dracut-install: Failed to find module 'nvidia'
dracut[E]: FAILED: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install -D /var/tmp/dracut.gQLZmA/initramfs --kerneldir /lib/modules/6.6.67-1ma
mba-x86_64/ -m nvidia nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm
warning: posix.fork(): .fork(), .exec(), .wait() and .redirect2null() are deprecated, use rpm.spawn() or rpm.execute() ins
tead
warning: posix.wait(): .fork(), .exec(), .wait() and .redirect2null() are deprecated, use rpm.spawn() or rpm.execute() ins
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warning: posix.exec(): .fork(), .exec(), .wait() and .redirect2null() are deprecated, use rpm.spawn() or rpm.execute() ins
tead
Creating group 'nvidia-persistenced' with GID 143.
Creating user 'nvidia-persistenced' (NVIDIA Persistence Daemon) with UID 143 and GID 143.
New leaves:
xorg-drv-video-nvidia_470.x86_64
Installed:
dkms-3.1.4-1mamba.x86_64 gcc-14.2.1+20240909git.3951efed-2mamba.x86_64
gcc-cpp-14.2.1+20240909git.3951efed-2mamba.x86_64 kernel-mamba-x86_64-headers-6.6.67-1mamba.x86_64
libgo-14.2.1+20240909git.3951efed-2mamba.x86_64 libisl-0.27-1mamba.x86_64
libmpc-1.3.1-1mamba.x86_64 libnvidia-egl-wayland-1.1.17-1mamba.x86_64
xorg-drv-video-nvidia_470-1:470.199.02-1mamba.x86_64
Complete!
As you can see dracut fails.
I would like to mention that I found it very confusing that the nvidia-470 package includes nvidia-settings but the current nvidia-570 package does not. I think it's inconsistent. I suggest splitting all packages, or include nvidia-settings into current nvidia-570.
I would like to add that my system has both an intel graphics chip and an nvidia card.
glxinfo |grep vendor
server glx vendor string: SGI
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa
glxinfo |grep renderer
GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_gl_interop, GLX_MESA_query_renderer,
GLX_MESA_gl_interop, GLX_MESA_query_renderer, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
OpenGL renderer string: NVF1
It looks like I was suffering for awful performance because everything is being software rendered instead of using any of the available graphics chips.
Hi,
the package providing legacy nvidia_470 driver is known needing to be reviewed and from the contents of your post it seems that the nvidia module fails to build.
As a first step, the system should correctly work with the Intel GPU, but the report you sent shows that the graphical subsystem is giving priority to the nouveau driver which is know to behave bad on many chipsets, so I would first of all remove both the nouveau and the nvidia drivers:
sudo dnf remove xf86-video-nouveau xorg-drv-video-nvidia_470
Then the system is expected to behave normally using Intel GPU while trying to fix the nvidia_470 driver would be a next step.
Hi, thank you for your answer. I guess I must wait for the new release of xorg-drv-video-nvidia_470 to use openmamba, that's a shame.
I accidentally rebooted and the os wouldn't boot any more, I had to do a fresh install.
I have many questions, I apologize.
Does openmamba have a bug tracker of sorts?
Does openmamba have a community chatroom?
I am experiencing awful performance and I am not sure what is causing it. Everything is extremely slow, so I suspected some driver issue. Some people from another community where I asked for help suspected it could be graphics drivers.
To give you an idea: discord is often taking 140% CPU according to top, the web browser is very laggy, everything looks slow and delayed. The new fresh install also took significantly longer than I would expect a linux distro to take to install.
I was running nouveau fine on AlmaLinux the past year on this same system, to me it seems like nouveau should be ok.
Do you have any suggestion on how to verify whether or not the graphics driver is indeed the source of these performance issues?
For reference, the issue with nvidia-470 driver has been discussed here. Thank you for testing and providing useful information to fix the package.
