1050 Ti on CentOS 8.3

Hi, I’m trying to get the nvidia drivers loaded on my baremetal server running CentOS 8.3. CPU i7-4820K system.

The intended use is compute, so no graphics packages are needed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. The install fails with this log file:

nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Thu Jan  7 16:06:56 2021
installer version: 460.32.03

PATH: /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin

nvidia-installer command line:
    ./nvidia-installer

Using: nvidia-installer ncurses v6 user interface
-> Detected 8 CPUs online; setting concurrency level to 8.
-> Installing NVIDIA driver version 460.32.03.
-> Would you like to register the kernel module sources with DKMS? This will allow DKMS to automatically build a new module, if you install a different kernel later. (Answer: Yes)
-> Install NVIDIA's 32-bit compatibility libraries? (Answer: Yes)
Looking for install checker script at ./libglvnd_install_checker/check-libglvnd-install.sh
   executing: '/bin/sh ./libglvnd_install_checker/check-libglvnd-install.sh'...
   Found libglvnd libraries: libGLESv2.so.2 libGLESv1_CM.so.1 libOpenGL.so.0 libEGL.so.1 libGLX.so.0 libGL.so.1
   Found non-libglvnd libraries:
   Missing libraries:
   libglvnd appears to be installed.
Will not install libglvnd libraries.
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libOpenGL.so.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libOpenGL.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLESv1_CM.so.1.2.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLESv1_CM.so.1"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLESv1_CM.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLESv2.so.2.1.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLESv2.so.2"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLESv2.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLdispatch.so.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLX.so.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLX.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGL.so.1.7.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGL.so.1"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGL.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libEGL.so.1.1.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libEGL.so.1"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libEGL.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "./32/libOpenGL.so.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libOpenGL.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "./32/libGLdispatch.so.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "./32/libGLESv2.so.2.1.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLESv2.so.2"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLESv2.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "./32/libGLESv1_CM.so.1.2.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLESv1_CM.so.1"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLESv1_CM.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "./32/libGL.so.1.7.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGL.so.1"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGL.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "./32/libGLX.so.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLX.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "./32/libEGL.so.1.1.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libEGL.so.1"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libEGL.so"
Will install libEGL vendor library config file to /usr/share/glvnd/egl_vendor.d
-> Searching for conflicting files:
-> done.
-> Installing 'NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64' (460.32.03):
   executing: '/sbin/ldconfig'...
-> done.
-> Driver file installation is complete.
-> Installing DKMS kernel module:
-> done.
ERROR: Unable to load the 'nvidia-drm' kernel module.
ERROR: Installation has failed.  Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details.  You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com.

The nouveau driver has been blacklisted.
# cat grub
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=“$(sed ‘s, release .*$,g’ /etc/system-release)”
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=“console”
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=“”
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY=“true”
GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau

My first guess would be secure boot is enabled.
Please run nvidia-bug-report.sh as root and attach the resulting nvidia-bug-report.log.gz file to your post.

That’s a really good thought, I don’t think I checked. Will upload bug if it isn’t.