# Problems installing rpmfusion Nvidia drivers

**URL:** <https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/problems-installing-rpmfusion-nvidia-drivers/12789>\
**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Created:** [February 7, 2024, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/problems-installing-rpmfusion-nvidia-drivers/12789 "2024-02-07T14:48:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![tilt-x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@tilt-x](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/tilt-x)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/problems-installing-rpmfusion-nvidia-drivers/12789/1 "2024-02-07T14:48:38Z")

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Hi all,

I’ve been trying to install the Nvidia drivers from rpmfusion and just can’t get them to work. I’m running Rocky 9.3 and have followed [this post](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/nvidia-drivers-on-rocky-linux/12366):

```auto
dnf update -y
reboot
dnf install akmod-nvidia

```

I have waited a while until the installation process seemed completed (looking at “top”). After a reboot, the nvidia driver didn’t work though, there were messages about falling back to nouveau.

```auto
# rpm -q akmod-nvidia kernel
akmod-nvidia-545.29.06-1.el9.x86_64
kernel-5.14.0-362.18.1.el9_3.x86_64
# uname -r
5.14.0-362.18.1.el9_3.x86_64

```

I have read in another post that one could try running “akmods --force” which I did but that didn’t solve the problem.

I’ve tried to load the module manually and this is where it gets interesting:

```auto
# modprobe nvidia
modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia not found in directory /lib/modules/5.14.0-362.18.1.el9_3.x86_64

```

The module isn’t in that directory but it can be found in another location: /lib/modules/5.14.0-362.8.1.el9\_3.x86\_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko.xz

This is from a slightly older kernel version. The directory for the kernel I’m running doesn’t have the extra/nvidia subdirectories at all. I’ve moved that directory somewhere else, uninstalled that older kernel package and ran “akmods --force” again in case it just ended up in the wrong version, but that didn’t result in any changes I could see. Is there more logging output available than just the result of akmods which is:

```auto
Checking kmods exist for 5.14.0-362.18.1.el9_3.x86_64 [OK]
Building and installing nvidia-kmod [OK]

```

Where did the module go? Should I try renaming the modules folder from the old kernel version to the new one in case these are compatible? Could it be a problem with the nouveau driver being around? It’s blacklisted on the boot command line (rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau) as far as I can see, but it seems to be loaded according to lsmod.

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**Author:** ![dali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c68b51/32.png) [@dali](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/dali)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 6:54pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/problems-installing-rpmfusion-nvidia-drivers/12789/2 "2024-02-08T18:54:23Z")

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Check the logs in /var/log/akmods, they might contain a clue to what’s happening.

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**Author:** ![tilt-x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@tilt-x](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/tilt-x)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 9:52am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/problems-installing-rpmfusion-nvidia-drivers/12789/3 "2024-02-09T09:52:57Z")

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Thank you! Your hint eventually led me to the solution. Long story short: dnf thought kmod-nvidia was already installed so akmods --force didn’t finish (but also didn’t display an error).

Step by step solution in case somebody else stumbles upon this problem:

The akmods log file just contained

```auto
2024/02/09 10:20:37 akmods: Building RPM using the command '/sbin/akmodsbuild --kernels 5.14.0-362.18.1.el9_3.x86_64 /usr/src/akmods/nvidia-kmod.latest'
2024/02/09 10:21:26 akmods: Installing newly built rpms
2024/02/09 10:21:26 akmods: DNF detected
2024/02/09 10:22:46 akmods: Successful.

```

But by looking at the akmods script itself I found out that the generated rpm package ended up in `/var/cache/akmods/nvidia/` alongside a log file. And that one contained:

```auto
Package kmod-nvidia-5.14.0-362.el9_3-3:545.29.06-1.el9.x86_64 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.

```

RPM also showed me that kmod-nvidia was installed, but DNF wasn’t able to remove it using “remove kmod-nvidia”. Only when I told it to remove kmod-nvidia-5.14.0… (the full version string) it removed the package which it claimed was installed from rpmfusion.

I know I had installed both kmod-nvidia and akmod-nvidia, removed them, reinstalled them, during my efforts to get the Nvidia driver going (and I didn’t know the difference between kmod and akmod).

Eventually, once the kmod-nvidia package was gone, `akmods --force` rebuilt and installed the right package and now I have the nvidia kernel module in `/lib/modules/$(uname -r)` and the driver was loaded after a reboot.

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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:** [April 9, 2024, 9:53am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/problems-installing-rpmfusion-nvidia-drivers/12789/4 "2024-04-09T09:53:37Z")

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