cool, thank you!! I will re-install in a day or so and report back here on how the newer version worked out. I take it you are saying I should use your version? I do not even know what cuda is for so i dont need cuda one would assume?
I used the first method listed. To confirm, I’ve installed Nvidia 495.29.05 and confirmed it with nvidia-settings. The problem is that according to “sudo lshw -c video” the driver=nouveau. How can I tell the OS to use the Nvidia? Rebooting after the procedure does not change it.
OK now. To recap: I had two issues. First, in order to disengage nouveau, I had to get back to the Rocky/Fedora boot menu which was configured secondary to Manjaro’s. (It’s seems strange to me that nouveau can only be blacklisted in the grub bootmenu, not in the OS itself.) Once I did that I finally got to the install with the nvidia driver. However, the nvidia install I used from the 1st post here wasn’t working properly as the screen was stuck at a stretched 1024x768 res. I needed to restart the procedure so I removed the nvidia driver with:
`sudo dnf remove ‘nvidia’
after which I was back with nouveau. From there I ran jlehtone’s steps in post 2. That went smoothly and I now seem to have a correctly configured desktop with nvidia drivers. In my setup I just have a couple extra steps using the efi setting boot menu.
Before performing step 5, I checked “nvidia-detect -v”, which gives the following:
nvidia-detect -v
Probing for supported NVIDIA devices…
[8086:3e9b] Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]
[10de:1cbc] NVIDIA Corporation GP107GLM [Quadro P600 Mobile]
This device requires the current 525.85.05 NVIDIA driver
WARNING: Xorg log file /var/log/Xorg.0.log does not exist
WARNING: Unable to determine Xorg ABI compatibility
WARNING: The driver for this device does not support the current Xorg version
An Intel display controller was also detected
So what to make of that? Am I stuck with nouveau drivers, or should I be able to install and use 525.85.05 Nvidia drivers ok?
Total 34 kB/s | 24 kB 00:00 ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository - el9 1.6 MB/s | 1.7 kB 00:00
Importing GPG key 0xBAADAE52:
Userid : “elrepo.org (RPM Signing Key for elrepo.org) secure@elrepo.org”
Fingerprint: 96C0 104F 6315 4731 1E0B B1AE 309B C305 BAAD AE52
From : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Key imported successfully
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Preparing : 1/1
Installing : nvidia-detect-525.85.05-1.el9.x86_64 1/1
Running scriptlet: nvidia-detect-525.85.05-1.el9.x86_64 1/1
Verifying : nvidia-detect-525.85.05-1.el9.x86_64 1/1
Installed:
nvidia-detect-525.85.05-1.el9.x86_64
Complete!
root@ocelot/home/dcat nvidia-detect -v
Probing for supported NVIDIA devices…
[10de:1c82] NVIDIA Corporation GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti]
This device requires the current 525.85.05 NVIDIA driver
WARNING: Xorg log file /var/log/Xorg.0.log does not exist
WARNING: Unable to determine Xorg ABI compatibility
WARNING: The driver for this device does not support the current Xorg version
The last time I tried to install the NVidia drivers it blew up in my face. Not eager to repeat the experience.
It seems that the nvidia-detect reads the version of X11 from the /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Your system does not have the /var/log/Xorg.0.log yet – you probably have not started X11. Not even once.
The ELRepo driver is built for EL8 and does support the Xorg that is provided by EL8.
Therefore, the “does not support” warning message is false.