Installing NVIDIA driver for GT730 in Fedora has made it unusable!

Just install pop with default intel drivers and not the NVIDIA iso.

Then after u install, update the system and reboot the system. Then open pop shop and u should be able to see the driver.

Ohh first time saw a person using address bar at the bottom in mobile. How does it feel and why did u choose it instead of top bar?

Btw inn which region u are from India? Saw 5g plus for first time too!
(the bhim app notification helped me infer that u are from India )

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Oh, it’s just easy to use for me. Nothing special. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hahaha! Yes. I didn’t crop the image because nothing to hide. :smile: I am from Kolkata.

I will try to do that again today. Yesterday I tested Debian, Mint, Pop… none worked. Debian gave “descriptor error” when booting from Live USB, Mint gave “cpu stuck” error and Pop made a mess with the display when booting from Live USB. Only Fedora worked. I even installed the RPM Fusion Nvidia driver in Fedora-XFCE spin but that half worked. So, I will try again the ‘POP’.

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Did you used Rufus or any other utility to make the Live USB? Rufus is showing, "The ISO file is a ISOHybrid but its creators have not made it compatible with ISO/File copy mode. As a result, DD image writing mode will be enforced**. I think the creation of Live USB got messed up here.

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I think I used a iso disk creation app from the new apps in GNOME CIRCLE.

Sure, try and tell!

Ohh nice!

How can I find it because Rufus is showing the same thing and it is failing to create a Live USB.

Where are you from?

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I’d try Balena etcher.
It’s crossplatform, so wether you are on Windows or Linux, you can use it.
And it worked flawlessly for me so far.
Another thing to try is Ventoy.
You need a big enough USB storage, regular pendrive, external HDD or SSD, either will do it…
You can put Ventoy onto that drive, then just copy the disk images onto it.
Ventoy will be able to boot those images, either UEFI or legacy boot mode.

I have a couple distros on my Ventoy drive, and things like GParted live, CloneZilla, and yet a Windows 10 install iso, just in case. Ventoy is extremely useful!

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@Skywalker71 , @TypeHrishi , @kovacslt
There is a simple CLI command called dd that will copy iso files to a usb drive.
Why use something complicated like Rufus or Ventoy that will do things behind your back?

The only requirement is that the iso file be a Hybrid iso file… most Linux distro files are. Non- hybrid iso files like Windows are only bootable from an actual CD/DVD drive.
Hybrid iso files will boot from a usb drive, or from the file itself on disk if you loop mount it.

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Hmm…try dd tool stated by @nevj

Thane, near Mumbai ( Kinda Mumbai Suburban zone )

Sure! Will try! Thanks… :))

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This seems to be a reasonable tutorial on dd

Heed the warnings. Make sure you write to the usb drive… not some other drive.

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Thanks! Will check it out!

I have used Ventoy. It is a quite useful tool. But with that also, POP OS and Debian gave ‘DISK DESCRIPTOR ERROR’. Only Fedora is not showing any error. Why these two are giving such an error, I have no idea. I also installed Rocky Linux 8.8 and 9.4, the latest. They didn’t gave that ‘Descriptor Error’ but both the vesrsions didn’t recognise my Wi-Fi adapter and later I checked that is a known issue. So, I couldn’t update or install anything. Now, I am really really exhausted. :disappointed:

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Nice! :heart:
@nevj, looks like ‘Linuxiac’ blocked Indian continent. Is that ‘DD’ tool usable in Windows or is it Linux tool?

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I’d blame a corrupted disk image download. Unless hash checked, and proven to be correct…

@Skywalker71


As you can see this is an 20yr old Dell Inspiron PC that is being refurbished to run Windows XP and Windows 10, it is being refurbished for my Son, with the specs he wants.

This is the disk layout, msdos with two partitions and running W10 in a local account, he does not need a MS account, and no PW are set, he will have the honor of setting passwords.

As you can see, it is running a Nvidia GeForce 8500GT card, that is a lot older than the GT730, you are trying to install with Linux.
Why am I posting this?
There is nothing wrong with the GT730 card, except for the venue you are trying to use and install too. This same PC, running Gentoo, would only run the 8500GT with nouveau driver, and just barely at that.
You may get the card to work, but one thing for sure, Nvidia is not in business to supply drivers for Linux, and this is one of the big difference between Windows and LInux.
So you can keep trying to install the Nvidia card or change to a Amd card or find a more suitable Linux, for Nvidia, which can be a one-way street.
Good luck!!

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Here is another site
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/creating-a-bootable-ubuntu-usb-stick-on-a-debian-linux/

It is a linux command
The man page is here

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/dd.1.html

You can also read man psges on linux, try
man dd
at the cli.

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This is the sentence in a million. Nvidia is not in business to supply drivers for Linux because they are in the business for making profit. They doesn’t care. They are trying to control Linux as they see fit and here, I think, Linux developers need to develop a workaround, if possible at all, so that we don’t have to submit to Nvidia’s wish and throw out our current graphics cards.

:sob::sob::sob::sob:

Which ‘suitable Linux’ are out there??!! And what do you mean by “which can be a one-way street”??!! :cold_face::cold_face: You are talking like Morpheus in The Matrix. :thinking:

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Did u try installing pop after our discussion @Skywalker71

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Nvidia only fail to support old nvidia card for Linux.
With new cards Linux now has full support

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