Nvidia drivers and 9.7 - black screen

Hi, after updating the system some weeks ago the graphics didn’t work anymore (I guess it was the update to 9.7 that broke it???). I removed the nvidia graphics driver and reinstalled them:

sudo dnf remove "nvidia*" "cuda*"
sudo dnf module reset nvidia-driver
sudo dnf clean all
sudo rm -rf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-nvidia.conf # If it exists
sudo reboot

The (default/builtin)graphics worked after reboot.

Updating the system and installing the nvidia drivers again:

sudo dnf upgrade 
sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/rhel9/x86_64/cuda-rhel9.repo
sudo dnf install -y kernel-devel-$(uname -r) kernel-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo dnf module install -y nvidia-driver:open-dkms
sudo reboot

The installation completed without errors. After booting the system I got a black screen (again). Running:

nvidia-smi

Gave the following: “The NVIDIA GPU …. installed in this system is not supported by open nvidia.ko because it does not include the required GPU…”

Any suggestion how to proceed? Needless to say I’m a bit of a noob :slight_smile:

Are you sure that it reads “GPU” and not “GSP”?

The GSP (GPU System Processor) is a helper chip that exists on Turing and newer NVidia cards.
The “open” driver (open-dkms) requires GSP. The “proprietary” driver does not need GSP.

The proprietary driver would be in the nvidia-driver:latest-dkms stream, but the latest (590?)
does not support GPU generations that lack GSP, so one should use stream nvidia-driver:580-dkms


Which GPU model do you have?