# Downgrade Nvidia Drivers to 470.xx

**URL:** https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/downgrade-nvidia-drivers-to-470-xx/2803
**Category:** General
**Created:** [July 6, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/downgrade-nvidia-drivers-to-470-xx/2803 "2024-07-06T17:10:07Z")
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### Author: ![mayukhc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@mayukhc](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/mayukhc)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2024, 12:40pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/downgrade-nvidia-drivers-to-470-xx/2803/4 "2024-08-07T12:40:46Z")

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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](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/how-to-install-universal-blues-base-images/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](https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA#OSTree%20(Silverblue/Kinoite/etc))), the silverblue guide ([2](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/troubleshooting/#_using_nvidia_drivers)) 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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