ollama - 💡(How to fix) Fix Ollama does not detect my Nvdia GPU on Fedora 44

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Log output of ollama server
ollama serve
time=2026-05-20T13:12:24.167+05:00 level=INFO source=routes.go:1802 msg="server config" env="map[CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES: GGML_VK_VISIBLE_DEVICES: GPU_DEVICE_ORDINAL: HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES: HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION: HTTPS_PROXY: HTTP_PROXY: NO_PROXY: OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH:0 OLLAMA_DEBUG:INFO OLLAMA_DEBUG_LOG_REQUESTS:false OLLAMA_EDITOR: OLLAMA_FLASH_ATTENTION:false OLLAMA_GPU_OVERHEAD:0 OLLAMA_HOST:http://127.0.0.1:11434 OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE:5m0s OLLAMA_KV_CACHE_TYPE: OLLAMA_LLM_LIBRARY: OLLAMA_LOAD_TIMEOUT:5m0s OLLAMA_MAX_LOADED_MODELS:0 OLLAMA_MAX_QUEUE:512 OLLAMA_MAX_TRANSFER_STREAMS:4 OLLAMA_MODELS:/home/uk/.ollama/models OLLAMA_MULTIUSER_CACHE:false OLLAMA_NEW_ENGINE:false OLLAMA_NOHISTORY:false OLLAMA_NOPRUNE:false OLLAMA_NO_CLOUD:false OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL:1 OLLAMA_ORIGINS:[http://localhost https://localhost http://localhost:* https://localhost:* http://127.0.0.1 https://127.0.0.1 http://127.0.0.1:* https://127.0.0.1:* http://0.0.0.0 https://0.0.0.0 http://0.0.0.0:* https://0.0.0.0:* app://* file://* tauri://* vscode-webview://* vscode-file://*] OLLAMA_REMOTES:[ollama.com] OLLAMA_SCHED_SPREAD:false OLLAMA_VULKAN:false ROCR_VISIBLE_DEVICES: http_proxy: https_proxy: no_proxy:]"
time=2026-05-20T13:12:24.167+05:00 level=INFO source=routes.go:1804 msg="Ollama cloud disabled: false"
time=2026-05-20T13:12:24.168+05:00 level=INFO source=images.go:517 msg="total blobs: 4"
time=2026-05-20T13:12:24.168+05:00 level=INFO source=images.go:524 msg="total unused blobs removed: 0"
time=2026-05-20T13:12:24.168+05:00 level=INFO source=routes.go:1864 msg="Listening on 127.0.0.1:11434 (version 0.24.0)"
time=2026-05-20T13:12:24.168+05:00 level=INFO source=runner.go:67 msg="discovering available GPUs..."
time=2026-05-20T13:12:24.170+05:00 level=INFO source=server.go:433 msg="starting runner" cmd="/usr/local/bin/ollama runner --ollama-engine --port 42659"
time=2026-05-20T13:12:24.196+05:00 level=INFO source=types.go:60 msg="inference compute" id=cpu library=cpu compute="" name=cpu description=cpu libdirs=ollama driver="" pci_id="" type="" total="15.3 GiB" available="8.5 GiB"
time=2026-05-20T13:12:24.196+05:00 level=INFO source=routes.go:1914 msg="vram-based default context" total_vram="0 B" default_num_ctx=4096
time=2026-05-20T13:12:25.526+05:00 level=INFO source=model_recommendations.go:177 msg="model recommendations cache sleep scheduled" wait=4h11m59.460852422s consecutive_failures=0
-----------------------------
nvidia-smi output

Wed May 20 13:27:55 2026       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 595.71.05              Driver Version: 595.71.05      CUDA Version: 13.2     |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 ...    Off |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   47C    P3             10W /   35W |      12MiB /   6144MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A           15293      G   /usr/bin/gnome-shell                      1MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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What is the issue?

Hi

I am trying to run Ollama on Fedora 44. When I run the ollama serve it tries to find the GPU (RTX 3050) but does not find it and ultimately falls back to CPU I have Nvidia drivers already installed.

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Log output of ollama server
ollama serve
time=2026-05-20T13:12:24.167+05:00 level=INFO source=routes.go:1802 msg="server config" env="map[CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES: GGML_VK_VISIBLE_DEVICES: GPU_DEVICE_ORDINAL: HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES: HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION: HTTPS_PROXY: HTTP_PROXY: NO_PROXY: OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH:0 OLLAMA_DEBUG:INFO OLLAMA_DEBUG_LOG_REQUESTS:false OLLAMA_EDITOR: OLLAMA_FLASH_ATTENTION:false OLLAMA_GPU_OVERHEAD:0 OLLAMA_HOST:http://127.0.0.1:11434 OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE:5m0s OLLAMA_KV_CACHE_TYPE: OLLAMA_LLM_LIBRARY: OLLAMA_LOAD_TIMEOUT:5m0s OLLAMA_MAX_LOADED_MODELS:0 OLLAMA_MAX_QUEUE:512 OLLAMA_MAX_TRANSFER_STREAMS:4 OLLAMA_MODELS:/home/uk/.ollama/models OLLAMA_MULTIUSER_CACHE:false OLLAMA_NEW_ENGINE:false OLLAMA_NOHISTORY:false OLLAMA_NOPRUNE:false OLLAMA_NO_CLOUD:false OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL:1 OLLAMA_ORIGINS:[http://localhost https://localhost http://localhost:* https://localhost:* http://127.0.0.1 https://127.0.0.1 http://127.0.0.1:* https://127.0.0.1:* http://0.0.0.0 https://0.0.0.0 http://0.0.0.0:* https://0.0.0.0:* app://* file://* tauri://* vscode-webview://* vscode-file://*] OLLAMA_REMOTES:[ollama.com] OLLAMA_SCHED_SPREAD:false OLLAMA_VULKAN:false ROCR_VISIBLE_DEVICES: http_proxy: https_proxy: no_proxy:]"
time=2026-05-20T13:12:24.167+05:00 level=INFO source=routes.go:1804 msg="Ollama cloud disabled: false"
time=2026-05-20T13:12:24.168+05:00 level=INFO source=images.go:517 msg="total blobs: 4"
time=2026-05-20T13:12:24.168+05:00 level=INFO source=images.go:524 msg="total unused blobs removed: 0"
time=2026-05-20T13:12:24.168+05:00 level=INFO source=routes.go:1864 msg="Listening on 127.0.0.1:11434 (version 0.24.0)"
time=2026-05-20T13:12:24.168+05:00 level=INFO source=runner.go:67 msg="discovering available GPUs..."
time=2026-05-20T13:12:24.170+05:00 level=INFO source=server.go:433 msg="starting runner" cmd="/usr/local/bin/ollama runner --ollama-engine --port 42659"
time=2026-05-20T13:12:24.196+05:00 level=INFO source=types.go:60 msg="inference compute" id=cpu library=cpu compute="" name=cpu description=cpu libdirs=ollama driver="" pci_id="" type="" total="15.3 GiB" available="8.5 GiB"
time=2026-05-20T13:12:24.196+05:00 level=INFO source=routes.go:1914 msg="vram-based default context" total_vram="0 B" default_num_ctx=4096
time=2026-05-20T13:12:25.526+05:00 level=INFO source=model_recommendations.go:177 msg="model recommendations cache sleep scheduled" wait=4h11m59.460852422s consecutive_failures=0
-----------------------------
nvidia-smi output

Wed May 20 13:27:55 2026       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 595.71.05              Driver Version: 595.71.05      CUDA Version: 13.2     |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 ...    Off |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   47C    P3             10W /   35W |      12MiB /   6144MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A           15293      G   /usr/bin/gnome-shell                      1MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

OS

Linux

GPU

Nvidia

CPU

Intel

Ollama version

0.24.0

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