[BUG]: Nvidia driver problems

[Matthew444444]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Current Behavior

Hardware: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
AlmaLinux version: 10.2
Installation: Clean installation

I followed the official AlmaLinux NVIDIA installation guide exactly:

dnf install almalinux-release-nvidia-driver
dnf install nvidia-open-kmod nvidia-driver

After reboot, the NVIDIA kernel module did not load. The system booted using a fallback graphics driver with low resolution instead of the NVIDIA driver.

Expected Behavior

Following the official installation guide, should result in the NVIDIA driver loading successfully after the first reboot, with the system starting at the native display resolution and the NVIDIA kernel module active.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Perform a clean installation of AlmaLinux 10.2.

2. Boot the system and update packages if desired.

3. Install the NVIDIA packages exactly as documented:

   dnf install almalinux-release-nvidia-driver
   dnf install nvidia-open-kmod nvidia-driver

4. Reboot.

5. Observe that the system boots in low resolution because the NVIDIA kernel module did not load.

Anything else?

The issue was resolved by installing:

dnf install kernel-modules-$(uname -r) kernel-modules-extra-$(uname -r)

and then:

echo video | sudo tee /etc/modules-load.d/video.conf
grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="nvidia-drm.modeset=1 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau"
dracut -f --kver "$(uname -r)"
reboot

After these steps, the NVIDIA driver loaded correctly.

It may be helpful to document these requirements if they are expected on some systems, or investigate why they are necessary after following the official guide.

Search terms

Alma,Nvidia,Driver,Kernel modules,Linux

[alaurie]

I have had a similar issue and found that you dont need to add anything to module conf or loading. You just need to do the below to regenerate the initram after the initial driver install and then it works.

sudo dracut --regenerate-all --force

[Matthew444444]

Ok ill try that..thnx

[jonathanspw]

I suspect your issues will be fixed by https://git.almalinux.org/rpms/nvidia-open-kmod/pulls/18 which will be release as nvidia-open-kmod-610.43.02-6 shortly.

The problem was ultimately a scriptlet ordering issue causing the initramfs rebuild to happen before the firmware files, which need to be included in the initramfs image, were present. The initramfs regeneration happens in a package from Nvidia that we redistribute, but not one that we rebuild and would rather not rebuild so we've adjusted logic in our scriptlets to perform an initramfs rebuild after the rest of the RPM transaction is finished to ensure the firmware is pulled into the generated initramfs image.

[Matthew444444]

I see, well thank you for your reply and explanation. Im happy that you are going to fix this.

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[jonathanspw]

This update has been released.

[Matthew444444]

Great news..thank you!!