Problem with Nvidia 545 in AlmaLinux 9

Graphics / Linux Linux
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Hello. I have installed AlmaLinux 9 KDE on an old machine and getting the Nvidia drivers using this guide LINK

The issue is after restarting I getting a black screen with a command prompted (that not showing anything even when I press on the keyboard) only not sure what I can do to fix it.

Note: I forget to add the epel-next-release if it may cause the issue. If someone can confirm. Or something else is causing the issue entirely.

The Specs are:

Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz

Memory: ١٥٫٦ GiB of RAM

Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2

Thanks in advance.

2

Please run nvidia-bug-report.sh as root and attach the resulting nvidia-bug-report.log.gz file to your post.

3

Sorry for the delay. I just need couple of things here.

1 - The issue is with the PC and I am using a laptop to write this post. I can SSH to the PC but not sure how can I take the nvidia-bug-report.sh from the PC to the laptop to post it.

2 - I have used the mentioned link above to do the installation process. I would like to ask if their is a guide from NVIDIA to the same as I believe the guide I found could be wrong or missing something.

3 - Is my graphic card is supported with this driver? what about Wayland? I am starting to worry.

Thanks,

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Your graphics card is supported by nearly all current driver versions with one exception: the nvidia-open driver.
So if you ran

sudo dnf module install nvidia-driver:latest-dkms

you should have a compatible driver but if you ran

sudo dnf module install nvidia-driver:open-dkms

the driver is incompatible.
There are also installation instructions from nvidia but they’re hidden in the cuda docs so a bit difficult to find. https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/tesla-installation-notes/index.html#package-manager
To transfer files over ssh, you could use filezilla.