Installing NVIDIA drivers on a realtime Linux (PREEMPT-RT)

nvidia-driver-realtime.sh

# Tested on Ubuntu 16.04 and X11, 2019

# 1. Download NVIDIA driver as a .run file

# 2. Stop X-Server
sudo service lightdm stop

# 3. Blacklist Nouveau driver
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

# Insert into file:
#  blacklist nouveau
#  options nouveau modeset=0

# 4. Update kernel initramfs
sudo update-initramfs -u
sudo reboot  # I'm not sure if needed

# 5. Install driver!
sudo IGNORE_PREEMPT_RT_PRESENCE=1 bash <*>.run  # Insert downloaded .run file

# 6. Reboot
sudo reboot

Any experience with Fedora?

A few additional remarks for not so competent Users:

Install gcc, make, pkg-config, libglvnd0 and libglvnd0:i386 first (the last three are probably already installed, the first two not necessarily):
sudo apt-get install gcc make pkg-config libglvnd0 libglvnd0:i386 -y

After stopping lightdm, enter console with Alt+F1. Stop the lightdm service before step 5. again, perhaps you can navigate to your Nvidia-xxx.run file in your file manager first, perform a right click and open the folder in your terminal. When you rename your .run file first (e.g. nvidia-525.run) it's much more convenient.

The script suggests installing via gui driver installation, don't do this and confirm "Continue Installation".

Work's like a charme with ubuntucinnamon 23.10.

Thank you!

Link for .run file to be found via
docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/tesla-installation-notes/index.html#runfile
(as of May 2023)

Hi,
I installed real-time kernel 5.15.113-rt64 on Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS. I have NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.
I downloaded the .run file from the Nvidia website. I followed the same instructions, but the system stuck after I reboot the system.
How can I solve this problem? I tried many ways but did not succeed.
Thank you

Hi, I installed real-time kernel 5.15.113-rt64 on Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS. I have NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. I downloaded the .run file from the Nvidia website. I followed the same instructions, but the system stuck after I reboot the system. How can I solve this problem? I tried many ways but did not succeed. Thank you

maybe becuse of bios security,you can ref https://askubuntu.com/questions/1408379/cant-set-nvidia-as-default-gpu-ubuntu-freeze-on-boot-after-installing-nvidia-d

Based on the IGNORE_PREEMPT_RT_PRESENCE=1 info, I was able to install nvidia-driver-dkms on RT kernel. Thank you!

https://qiita.com/cielavenir/items/c4afeb7af8f2ba510a59

Hi, unfortunately there are cases it does not work well. In my case, installing vmware caused kernel panic.

That worked, but when you install this on bare Ubuntu 22.04 right after debootstraping it, you should also install:

sudo apt install libglvnd-dev pkg-config dkms

and, if you plan using Wine, you should also install i386 version of libglvnd-dev

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libglvnd-dev libglvnd-dev:i386 pkg-config dkms

Installer itself asked to install these libs and packages

Worked on Ubuntu 20.04 with 5.15.107-rt62 kernel, thanks a lot

Works correctly with IGNORE_PREEMPT_RT_PRESENCE=1 and nvidia-driver-545=545.29.06-0ubuntu5, on Ubuntu 24.04 and kernel 6.8.0-rc5-realtime-sunlight1-rt4(6.8.0-rc5-rt4).

cat /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers-kms.conf
# This file was generated by nvidia-driver-545
# Set value to 0 to disable modesetting
options nvidia-drm modeset=1 fbdev=1

[ 2.705146] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 545.29.06 Thu Nov 16 01:59:08 UTC 2023

Worked on Ubuntu 20.04 with 5.15.107-rt62 kernel, thanks a lot

Thanks, following this setting, I succeed.

Succeed on 5.15.0-rt17 with ubuntu 20.04.6 . I hesitated when it popped out saying "GUI has better supporting installation versions." Thank you.

It worked on Ubuntu 22.04 RT with NVIDIA 535

I also installed the RTK on an ubuntu 20 machine with NVIDIA gpus. The machine was working fine for awhile, but now the system only boots into command line after showing "ACPI BIOS Error". startx fails from this command line environment. I'm wondering if installing the RTK with IGNORE_PREEMPT_RT_PRESENCE=1 is the root cause of my issues. (Desktop env failing could indicate problems with graphics drivers).

Tested on Ubuntu 22.04.5 with version 550 run.sh, works.

Worked on Ubuntu 22.04.5 with 5.15.0-1072-realtime and NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-550.127.05.run