# ELRepo vs. legacy NVidia drivers **URL:** \ **Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\ **Created:** [July 14, 2024, 6:51am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/elrepo-vs-legacy-nvidia-drivers/15058 "2024-07-14T06:51:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![xbourque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/8baadc/32.png) [@xbourque](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/xbourque)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/elrepo-vs-legacy-nvidia-drivers/15058/7 "2024-07-19T21:42:04Z")
Recent kernel updates broke nvidia 470. Nvidia recently released new versions of the 470 driver that fixed the incompatibility problem (470.256), but RPMFusion never updated and are still stuck at 470.223. ELRepo picked up the slack and has a compatible 470.256 driver in their testing repo. See this thread for more info: > [@Akmod-nvidia-470xx fails to compile in Rocky 9.4?](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/akmod-nvidia-470xx-fails-to-compile-in-rocky-9-4/14048/8): > > If anyone stumbles on this thread: “ELRepo - Testing” provides an up-to-date Nvidia 470.xx driver that is compatible with the latest Rocky Linux kernel. I am running Nvidia 470.256.02 driver on kernel 5.14.0-427.22.1 sucessfully on an old Macbook Pro GeForce GT 750M Mac Edition. dnf info kmod-nvidia-470xx ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository - el9 7.0 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00 Installed Packages Name : kmod-nvidia-470xx Version : 470… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/elrepo-vs-legacy-nvidia-drivers/15058)._