How to Install NVIDIA GPU driver to Rocky Linux 9.5

1. Upgrade, refresh and restart the operating system before attempting to install the NVIDIA driver! ...

1.a Upgrade and refresh Rocky Linux 9.5 ...

	$>sudo dnf update -y

	$>sudo dnf upgrade --refresh -y

Restart the system ...

	$>sudo reboot

2. Disable Nouveau, the default GPU driver with GRUB ...

2.a Determine the system boot type (BIOS or UEFI) .

This can be accomplished by:

Checking BIOS/UEFI settings

... or ...

Checking the disk file system ...

	$>sudo df -h

... if output contains a ' /boot/efi ' directory; the system boot type is likely UEFI .

2.b Edit GRUB file ' /etc/default/grub ' with nano editor ...

     $>sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Note: Never directly edit any other GRUB file; only this one, ' /etc/default/grub ' .

Notice that it does not have a suffix; i.e. this particular one is ' grub ' not ' grub.cfg ' !!!

Find the line that begins with ' GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT ' or ' GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX '

Example: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="blah blah blah"

Use arrow keys to maneuver the cursor to the end of that line; and append it with ' nouveau.modeset=0" '

Example: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="blah blah blah nouveau.modeset=0"

Notice that there are no spaces immediately preceding or following the quote marks < " > .

' Ctl+O ' to commit changes to the nano editor buffer

' Ctl+X ' to exit nano editor

2.c Update GRUB ...

For BIOS:

    $>sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

For UEFI:

    $>sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

If Rocky Linux complains with ' GRUB configuration file was not updated ' ; try ...

		$>sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/rocky/grub.cfg

Restart the system ...

	$>sudo reboot now

3. Identify, download and install the appropriate NVIDIA GPU driver ...

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/242273/ - This is the driver for your NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPUs

3.a From System SN4622123742 , download the driver run file with ...

Navigate to the current user home directory ...

		$>sudo cd ~

Download the NVIDIA driver run file ...

		$>sudo wget https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/570.133.07/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-570.133.07.run

3.b Make the downloaded NVIDIA run file executable ...

		$>sudo chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-570.133.07.run

3.c Disable the GUI display manager by changing the system runlevel ...

		$>sudo init 3

3.d Install the NVIDIA driver by executing the run file ...

		$>sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-570.133.07.run

3.e Restart the system ...

		$>sudo reboot

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