# NVidia drivers: RPMFusion vs. ELRepo
**URL:** https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-drivers-rpmfusion-vs-elrepo/7473
**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support
**Created:** [October 6, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-drivers-rpmfusion-vs-elrepo/7473 "2022-10-06T16:12:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@microlinux](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/microlinux)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-drivers-rpmfusion-vs-elrepo/7473/1 "2022-10-06T16:12:40Z")
Hi,
I’m currently fiddling with Rocky Linux as a base system for a bells-and-whistles workstation. The PC has an NVidia GeForce GT 710 video card. I’ve been using RHEL clones since CentOS 4.x, so I have some experience in setting up this kind of video card.
Under Rocky Linux 8.x I’m using - among other repos - the RPMFusion and the ELRepo repositories. Now I notice that both of these provide binary NVidia drivers.
Any recommendations on which ones to use ?
Thanks & cheers from the sunny South of France,
Niki
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### Author:  [@stack](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/stack)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-drivers-rpmfusion-vs-elrepo/7473/2 "2022-10-06T16:19:30Z")
I know Nvidia marks it as CUDA, but even if you aren’t using CUDA they provide official Rocky drivers (and you don’t have to install CUDA if you don’t want it):
> **[CUDA Toolkit 11.7 Downloads](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads?target_os=Linux&target_arch=x86_64&Distribution=Rocky&target_version=8&target_type=rpm_network)**
>
> Get the latest feature updates to NVIDIA's proprietary compute stack.
```auto
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/rhel8/x86_64/cuda-rhel8.repo
sudo dnf clean all
sudo dnf -y module install nvidia-driver:latest-dkms
sudo dnf -y install cuda
```
That’s one way of getting the official NVidia drivers. I only use NVidia provided RPMs and can’t speak to the other repos.
Hope this helps.
~Stack~
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### Author:  [@label](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/label)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2022, 5:12pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-drivers-rpmfusion-vs-elrepo/7473/3 "2022-10-06T17:12:31Z")
Using elrepo or rpmfusion should be sufficient. I generally recommend the use of elrepo for the nvidia driver.
I would personally avoid the nvidia driver site directly as they take sometimes too long to update their drivers for a kernel release (on top of their spec files being configured poorly - there was a case we had to reissue a kernel and their driver stopped working entirely - this doesn’t happen with elrepo’s drivers). Please see our [starter post](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/start-here-rocky-linux-resources-and-you/7007) for other information.
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### Author:  [@microlinux](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/microlinux)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2022, 9:33pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-drivers-rpmfusion-vs-elrepo/7473/4 "2022-10-06T21:33:27Z")
Thanks guys. Guess I’ll be using ELRepo then. The more so since I’ve got some obsolete hardware here, a series of old Apple iMacs with Geforce 9400 cards that only work with the 340.xx driver. I know it’s obsolete, but it’s the only option to install an OS on these machines.
Cheers,
Niki
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### Author:  [@scottro](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/scottro)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2022, 12:05pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-drivers-rpmfusion-vs-elrepo/7473/5 "2022-10-07T12:05:05Z")
I also have a GT710. I’m using rpmfusion’s driver, but that was more or less happenstance. Putting this here for people who come upon it with a web search, the GT710 requires the nvidia-470xx set of drivers.
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### Author:  [@toracat](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/toracat)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-drivers-rpmfusion-vs-elrepo/7473/6 "2022-10-08T17:29:25Z")
And if you are unsure about which nvidia driver is required for your device, use the **nvidia-detect** package from ELRepo. For details see:
> **[ELRepo | nvidia-detect](https://www.elrepo.org/tiki/nvidia-detect)**
>
> ELRepo
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### Author:  [@brian](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/brian)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2023, 3:38am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-drivers-rpmfusion-vs-elrepo/7473/7 "2023-08-25T03:38:05Z")