# Nvidia Graphics card not working after upgrade to 8.7 **URL:** \ **Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\ **Created:** [November 17, 2022, 3:05pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-graphics-card-not-working-after-upgrade-to-8-7/7893 "2022-11-17T15:05:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ghooton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed8c4c/32.png) [@ghooton](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/ghooton)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2022, 3:05pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-graphics-card-not-working-after-upgrade-to-8-7/7893/1 "2022-11-17T15:05:45Z")
After the upgrade to 8.7 the Nvidia driver stop working. I had installed NVIDIA-Linux-x86\_64-470.63.01.run on 8.6 and it was working fine. It’s not a big deal, I reinstalled NVIDIA-Linux-x86\_64-515.76.run and it works now. Maybe DKMS modules had not automatically been rebuilt when the new kernel was installed. I check and dkms was installed. dkms.noarch 3.0.8-1.el8 @epel ---
**Author:** ![jlehtone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9a140/32.png) [@jlehtone](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jlehtone)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2022, 3:17pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-graphics-card-not-working-after-upgrade-to-8-7/7893/2 "2022-11-17T15:17:22Z")
NVidia has repo with RPM packages so one should have no need for the ghastly \*.run Their packaged version appears to dkms ok (at least for el9). ---
**Author:** ![dali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c68b51/32.png) [@dali](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/dali)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2022, 7:50pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-graphics-card-not-working-after-upgrade-to-8-7/7893/3 "2022-11-17T19:50:08Z")
Had no issues with Nvidia akmod drivers from RPM Fusion, kernel modules were automatically built after reboot. [https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA](https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA) ---
**Author:** ![ghooton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed8c4c/32.png) [@ghooton](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/ghooton)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 12:19pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-graphics-card-not-working-after-upgrade-to-8-7/7893/4 "2022-11-18T12:19:37Z")
So, the advice is to install Nvidial from RPM Fusion not the NVIDIA-Linux-xxxxxx.run Can someone point to a good howto? ---
**Author:** ![atomicturtle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/34f0e0/32.png) [@atomicturtle](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/atomicturtle)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-graphics-card-not-working-after-upgrade-to-8-7/7893/5 "2022-11-18T14:06:42Z")
[https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA](https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA) The only real gotcha with these are that you have to turn off secure boot in the bios ---
**Author:** ![ghooton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed8c4c/32.png) [@ghooton](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/ghooton)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 2:36pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-graphics-card-not-working-after-upgrade-to-8-7/7893/6 "2022-11-18T14:36:06Z")
That works with kernel 4.18.0-372 but I have 4.18.0-425 since the upgrade to 8.7 ---
**Author:** ![dali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c68b51/32.png) [@dali](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/dali)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2022, 7:01pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-graphics-card-not-working-after-upgrade-to-8-7/7893/7 "2022-11-18T19:01:24Z")
Install akmod-nvidia, I use it with Rocky 8.7, kernel 4.18.0-425.3.1.el8.x86\_64. Modules are automatically rebuilt if the kernel is updated. EDIT: I installed Rocky before Secure Boot was available, if you have Secure Boot enabled you need a private signing key for the modules. Haven’t tried it myself but Red Hat’s documentation is here: [Chapter 3. Signing kernel modules for secure boot Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Red Hat Customer Portal](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/managing_monitoring_and_updating_the_kernel/signing-kernel-modules-for-secure-boot_managing-monitoring-and-updating-the-kernel). ---
**Author:** ![brian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/brian/32/5777_2.png) [@brian](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/brian)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 3:33am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-graphics-card-not-working-after-upgrade-to-8-7/7893/8 "2023-08-25T03:33:53Z")