[elrepo] Nvidia drivers for Rocky Linux 9.1

[Phelps, Matthew]

On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 3:51 AM Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:

> On 09/03/2023 01:57, Fred wrote:
> > Elrepo does not (such that can see it) to have Nvidia drivers for Rocky
> > 9.1.
> >
> > nvidia-detect -v
> > Probing for supported NVIDIA devices...
> > [10de:1380] NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti]
> > This device requires the current 525.85.05 NVIDIA driver
> >
> > but the only files I can find for that are for Rocky/Centos/RHEL 8.6,
> > and they spew tons of errors when attempting to use dnf to install.
> >
> > Am I overlooking something, or am I simply being insufficiently patient?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Fred
> >
>
> Hi Fred,
>
> We have no plans to provide nvidia drivers for el9 at present.
>
> There was a small discussion here:
>
> https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=1245
>
> Phil
>
>

I've already added my +1 to that bug entry. If others on this list would
like the Nvidia drivers in ELrepo 9, I urge you to add your request there
as well.

For us, this is a major reason why we haven't even looked at Rocky 9 yet.
It will be a big deal for us to switch away from installing the drivers via
this repository for all our machines.

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