# Nvidia drivers on rocky 9.3 (legacy workstation)

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**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Tags:** rocky-linux-9\
**Created:** [December 11, 2024, 7:40am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-drivers-on-rocky-9-3-legacy-workstation/16814 "2024-12-11T07:40:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![tannerda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/tannerda/32/4983_2.png) [@tannerda](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/tannerda)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 7:40am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-drivers-on-rocky-9-3-legacy-workstation/16814/1 "2024-12-11T07:40:10Z")

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I’m new to Rocky and I’m trying to understand how best to approach proprietary NVIDIA driver installation on my legacy machine (an HP Z8 G4 with a Quadro P5000 graphics card).

I tried to follow the Nvidia Drivers on Rocky Linux Common Issues and Questions document, starting with the RPMFusion driver installation section. After carefully following through with the akmod-nvidia installation, I rebooted into a less-than-satisfactory windowing environment, with the llvmpipe driver loaded and my second monitor inaccessible.

I then restarted the installation from scratch and tried again with the akmod-nvidia-470xx versions, but got the same result.

Finally I tried NVIDIA’s official repos. I installed nvidia-driver:525 and at first blush got the same result, but on rebooting with an earlier kernel the “real” NVIDIA driver loaded correctly (“NVIDIA Corporation GP104GL [Quadro P5000]”).

The (more current) kernel version that caused the llvmpipe driver to load was

5.14.0-503.15.1.el9\_5.x86\_64

The older kernel version that allowed the correct NVIDIA driver to load was

5.14.0-362.8.1.el9\_3.x86\_64

I have a somewhat stable system, but I’m not sure what will happen if I allow the system to update itself. Will newer kernel versions be incompatible with the working nvidia-driver:525? Should I be taking a different approach? Does anyone else have experience getting a Quadro P5000 working with Rocky 9.3?

Thanks, Dave Tanner

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**Author:** ![jlehtone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9a140/32.png) [@jlehtone](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jlehtone)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-drivers-on-rocky-9-3-legacy-workstation/16814/2 "2024-12-11T10:45:51Z")

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I have `kmod-nvidia-550.135-1.el9_5.elrepo.x86_64` from _ELRepo_ on P4000. Seems ok.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/1X/91b7219eec10e30013422e4df76c1d898711a5d5.svg) [@system](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-drivers-on-rocky-9-3-legacy-workstation/16814/3 "2025-02-09T10:45:57Z")

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