Downgrade Nvidia Drivers to 470.xx

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I managed to get nvidia 470xx working with CUDA on latest kernel 6.9.7 + silverblue 40 + universal blue rebased on top, had to do the following

  1. Install silverblue 40 and rebase to universal blue main non-nvidia image (868), 470xx doesn’t support wayland, so need to get gnome/kde version, sericea(sway) won’t work.
  2. Setup display manager to use X, for gdm have to add WaylandEnable=false to /etc/gdm/custom.conf.
  3. Install akmod-470xx and cuda drivers as per rpm-fusion guide (1), the silverblue guide (2) uses kmod driver and extra kargs which causes black screen on boot.
  4. Verify nvidia-smi, then setup with nvidia-settings.
  5. Pin a working deployment as new kernels may/may not be compatible.
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