Hello all, We are a Hollywood studio and therefore all of our workstations are Rocky Linux 9.5 + Davinci Resolve. We attempted to migrate to Rocky Linux 9.5 KDE and discovered the hard way that for some reason, the RPMfusion kmod, akmod, and even the nVidia official drivers (open-dkms and latest-dk…

I run latest RHEL9, with kde and nvidia drivers. I get my nvidia drivers from nvidia, and I’m currently using the open driver. I’ve just rebooted one of my RL9 machines after upgrading it’s kernel, and it came back fine (and I’m kde only). I’m about to reboot this system (another RL9/KDE system),…

Thanks Mike. Do you think this is less of a Rocky KDE + nVidia issue then and more to do with something else? E.g. the AMD Threadripper or our specific RTX 4080 card since its working for you? What nVidia card are you using? RTX 4080 as well?

I suspect the RPM fusion. NVIDIA is updating things rapidly, and the external sites have a hard time keeping up. However, I have had to clean out all the nvidia, and install from scratch a few times, so I do them one at a time to make sure there isn’t a kernel upgrade that causes and NVIDIA hiccup…

Are there any hints in ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.1.log ? I think the latest-dkms is deprecated and you should use open-dkms. Did you install the latest nvidia-driver from Index of /compute/cuda/repos/rhel9/x86_64 ?

So, I have a few different types, but none are the RTX-4080.. what is the output of nvidia-driver-assistant? Mine ends with: Please copy and paste the following command to install the open kernel module flavour: sudo dnf -y module install nvidia-driver:open-dkms Not sure if this is availab…

There is a MatterMost SIG/VFX channel where you might find some help from people in your industry. It doesn’t have a lot of traffic, but it might be worth trying. I just got a 5070 Ti on a new ryzen 9 9950x build, but I’m waiting on the PS to arrive, so I’ll be having to deal with this issue myself …

There is also this with a few ideas to check: [image] Trouble with 5000 series and Nvidia Driver v570 Rocky Linux Help & Support Hi there - I’m on a fresh install of rocky 9.5 and cannot for the life of me get nvidia drivers working with my 5080. I’ve tried using both the …

I want to thank all of you for jumping in and trying to assist. I cross-posted this to the RockyLinux forum at Reddit and was given the idea to look at this potentially being related to either the login manager (SDDM versus GDM) or potentially Wayland versus X. However, I’m not quite sure I agree th…

@tunaboy Yes, in both scenarios, I wasn’t able to get the RPMfusion (akmod and kmod) or the ELrepo versions working. The only working scenario was Gnome Rocky + the official nvidia driver. IRMO of my CPU, correct. When I followed the Nvidia instructions, I always used the RHEL9/x86_64 URI.

Have you compared errors that might show in journalctl -b -p err immediately after booting in one or the other? Just a “low hanging fruit” and quick way to possibly catch some baseline state to start from. You could parse the journal for other messages, warnings, etc too of course.

Rocky Linux 9.5 KDE + nVidia Drivers = Black Screen of Death

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NezSez April 19, 2025, 5:23pm 8

There is also this with a few ideas to check:

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Rocky Linux 9.5 KDE + nVidia Drivers = Black Screen of Death

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