{"id":3340,"date":"2025-07-08T23:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T06:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2025-07-08T23:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T06:29:11","slug":"nvidia-now-watch-out-for-novacore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3340","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA &#8211; Now Watch Out for NovaCore.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a (rare) need to test the latest NVIDIA driver <strong>575.64.03<\/strong> with the Fedora 42 kernel (<strong>6.15.4-200.fc42.x86_64<\/strong>) and found that I was getting unexpected SSL errors, and &#8216;device not found&#8217; when trying to load the modules..<\/p>\n<p>After some more research. I found that Fedora had already included the new open-source <em><strong>NovaCore<\/strong><\/em> drivers as standard, and these were causing all the issues..<\/p>\n<p>To stop them from being loaded, I added <span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong>rd.driver.blacklist=nova_core<\/strong><\/span> to the kernel command line and created a file <span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\">\/etc\/modprobe.d\/nvidia-novacore-blacklist.conf<\/span> with contents <strong><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\">blacklist nova_core<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After reboot, the NVIDIA driver installed correctly..<\/p>\n<p>Note that the location of the &#8216;blacklist.conf&#8217; file may vary for other distributions..<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Robert Gadsdon. July 8th 2025.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a (rare) need to test the latest NVIDIA driver 575.64.03 with the Fedora 42 kernel (6.15.4-200.fc42.x86_64) and found that I was getting unexpected SSL errors, and &#8216;device not found&#8217; when trying to load the modules.. After some more research. I found that Fedora had already included the new open-source NovaCore drivers as standard, and these <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3340\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,15,18,19],"tags":[2754,2717,161,1173,2752,2753],"class_list":["post-3340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","tag-blacklist-nova_core","tag-fedora-42","tag-fix","tag-kernel","tag-novacore","tag-nvidia-modules-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3342,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions\/3342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}