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How to install the Nvidia drivers for your GPU in Alma Linux 9.2.

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Installation of the Nvidia drivers can be a problem on Alma Linux, but I managed to get this working. Firstly I had to set up the repositories for the installation.

Enable CRB on Alma Linux.

sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb
sudo dnf makecache

Enable the EPEL 9 repository if it has not already been enabled.

sudo dnf -y install epel-release
sudo dnf upgrade

Add the required Nvidia drivers repository.

sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/rhel9/x86_64/cuda-rhel9.repo
sudo dnf makecache

Then you may install the latest Nvidia driver for your card.

sudo dnf module install nvidia-driver

Once this completes, restart your machine and the Nvidia driver will be working.

┏jcartwright@localhost┋ ~━━┓
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛[10:45] ▓▒░┋ nvidia-smi
Mon Jul  3 11:09:31 2023       
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 535.54.03              Driver Version: 535.54.03    CUDA Version: 12.2     |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                      |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060        Off | 00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| 39%   31C    P5              19W / 172W |    346MiB /  6144MiB |     32%      Default |
|                                         |                      |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
 
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                            |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                            GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                             Usage      |
|=======================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A      2562      G   /usr/libexec/Xorg                           139MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      2698      G   /usr/bin/gnome-shell                         47MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      3479      G   /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox                  156MiB |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

After all of that, just install these final packages and you are done.

[root@localhost jcartwright]# dnf install freeglut-devel libX11-devel libXi-devel libXmu-devel make mesa-libGLU-devel freeimage-devel glfw-devel
Last metadata expiration check: 0:05:32 ago on Mon Jul  3 11:04:59 2023.
Package libX11-devel-1.7.0-7.el9.x86_64 is already installed.
Package make-1:4.3-7.el9.x86_64 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.

This does work very well, I needed to load the Nvidia settings utility to set the fan speed manually, but this is fine.


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