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 official Nvidia repos as well as rpmfusion.
Following this guide works up until the scriptlets are running, my gui freezes up and I have to manually pull the plug from my PC, which breaks the drivers since they’re only partially installed.
Is there something I’m missing? Since the 5080 is still relatively new I’m wondering if I need to use the Nvidia .run installer (which I understand isn’t advisable) until the package managers get sorted out. Any help is appreciated.
What is the 5080? GTX? RTX? I’m trying to use this: Download The Latest Official GeForce Drivers to try to find out if the 570 actually supports your card or whether you have to use an older one. But without knowing the series, difficult to help.
@iwalker It’s an RTX 5080 - since the card is so recent I believe it might require the 570 drivers
According to the nvidia website, 575 or 570 version should work for it. But you can perhaps try older ones to see, like 470.
That is not the gist of it.
NVidia’s CUDA repository has two sets of drivers: proprietary and open.
See dnf module list nvidia-driver
The nvidia-driver:*-dkms are the proprietary.
The nvidia-driver:*-open are the open.
The proprietary driver does not support Blackwell chips, which the 5080 is. Only the open does.
Hmm, I’ve tried the open driver, and I’ve tried the open driver with kernel-ml installed as well from elrepo, no luck.