10 - Installation

Run the installer

./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-570.124.04.run --dkms

• ACCEPT when it offers to handle existing nouveaudriver

• ACCEPT when it offers to rebuild initrafms

• REFUSE when it asks for 32bit compability drivers

• REFUSE when asked if you want to update Xserver config.

systemctl reboot

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Optional - Blacklisting generic drivers

If for some reason the installation fails instead of gracefully handling existing drivers

echo -e "blacklist nouveau\nblacklist nvidia*\noptions nouveau modeset=0" > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
update-grub
update-initramfs -u -k all
systemctl reboot

Run the installation again

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Verify the installation

ls -al /dev/nvidia*

If everything went well, you should see /dev/nvidia0and /dev/nvidiactl

Run nvtop to double-check.

Check if IOMMU is enabled:

dmesg | grep -e DMAR -e IOMMU -e AMD-Vi

Verify IOMMU interrupt remapping is enabled:

dmesg | grep 'remapping'

Check if VFIO is already enabled for some random reason:

lsmod | grep vfio

If not, we'll need to add three lines in /etc/modules

echo "vfio" >> /etc/modules
echo "vfio_iommu_type1" >> /etc/modules
echo "vfio_pci" >> /etc/modules

Add these lines in /etc/udev/rules.d/100-nvidia.rules

KERNEL=="nvidia", RUN+="/bin/bash -c '/usr/bin/nvidia-smi -L && /bin/chmod 666 /dev/nvidia*'"
KERNEL=="nvidia_uvm", RUN+="/bin/bash -c '/usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe -c0 -u && /bin/chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia-uvm*'"
SUBSYSTEM=="module", ACTION=="add", DEVPATH=="/module/nvidia", RUN+="/usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe -m"

Once you're done, apply the changes:

update-initramfs -u -k all
systemctl reboot

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Optional - Persistence Services

To avoid the driver/kernel module getting unloaded whenever the GPU is unused.

cp /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/samples/nvidia-persistenced-init.tar.bz2 .

bunzip2 nvidia-persistenced-init.tar.bz2

tar -xf nvidia-persistenced-init.tar

chmod +x nvidia-persistenced-init/install.sh;
./nvidia-persistenced-init/install.sh

rm -rf nvidia-persistenced-init*