NVIDIA Open GPU Datacenter Drivers for RHEL9 Signed by Red Hat

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Originally published at: NVIDIA Open GPU Datacenter Drivers for RHEL9 Signed by Red Hat | NVIDIA Technical Blog

NVIDIA and Red Hat have partnered to bring continued improvements to the precompiled NVIDIA Driver introduced in 2020. Last month, NVIDIA announced that the open GPU driver modules will become the default recommended way to enable NVIDIA graphics hardware. Today, NVIDIA announced that Red Hat is now compiling and signing the NVIDIA open GPU kernel…

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Hi all! Thanks for checking out our article and comments!

When you have a chance please try out our OpenRM Signed Techpreview for RHEL and report any successes or challenges you encounter. We spent a lot of time working on this and would appreciate any feedback.

Thanks!

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Hi All,

When speaking about the datacenter installations, one question would be, can we install the NVIDIA drivers without x11? X11 should not be in my mind mandatory for the GPUs.

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OS: RedHat 9
The GPU we are using it: NVIDIA L4 24GB GPU and the only interface for the RedHat is the putty, so x11 brings no value for us. Especially the GPUs are used for computing, not for graphical interface. That is the reason why x11 should be mandatory.

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Hi @Petri-X,
It is possible to install compute-only (“headless”) portion:

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Hi,

Thanks for the article.

The RHEL 9 open precompiled status page was last updated on 2025-07-07.

I have frequently checked on the tech preview as well as the regular default RHEL 9 repo for any updates. We are approaching the 6 month mark since the tech preview was set to expire. During that time, RHEL9.6 and 10.0 were released.

I have no prior experience with nvidia tech previews, and had assumed that it would have become generally available by now. Is there any news that can be shared? Perhaps an addendum to the article and/or an update to the status page could be made to help set the proper expectations.

Much appreciated.