Proxmox VE 8.2.2 on HP Z840 with Nvidia K5200 Driver Installation Issue

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Hi there! Bit of a novice to this. I am having significant time-suck issues getting Nvidia driver installed on this system - I wish to pass through to LXC.

What I have tried...

On 6.8.4-3-pve

Installed nvidia-detect which reports to use nvidia-tesla-470-driver

root@HPZ:~# nvidia-detect
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF119 [GeForce GT 610] [10de:104a] (rev a1)
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GK110GL [Quadro K5200] [10de:103c] (rev a1)

Checking card:  NVIDIA Corporation GF119 [GeForce GT 610] (rev a1)
Your card is only supported by the 390 legacy drivers series, which is only available up to bullseye.

Checking card:  NVIDIA Corporation GK110GL [Quadro K5200] (rev a1)
Your card is supported by the Tesla 470 drivers series.
It is recommended to install the
    nvidia-tesla-470-driver
package.

I plan to remove the GT610 next time I have the side panel off, as it no longer has driver support, though I do not think it should present an issue here?

Installed the suggested apt driver

root@HPZ:~# apt install nvidia-tesla-470-driver

Checked the status

root@HPZ:~# nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

I have previously tried running installation direct from Nvidia downloads (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-470.256.02.run) (without the apt drivers installed)

I have pinned at 6.5.13-5-pve to try the apt nvidia-tesla-470-driver which still produces the same issue with nvidia-smi.

The (headless) system has only been up and running a few months with Proxmox (not an upgrade from 7.x). I would like to avoid having to try a clean install if possible. Quite simply, I would like to get a stable system with driver for the K5200 working with passthrough to LXC.

 

[leesteken]

Maybe complain to NVidia to keep supporting their older GPUs and to support newer kernels sooner? Proxmox (or open-source developers) cannot fix their proprietary drivers.

 

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Maybe complain to NVidia to keep supporting their older GPUs and to support newer kernels sooner? Proxmox (or open-source developers) cannot fix their proprietary drivers.

I appreciate that, however this still doesn't really help. The drivers exist both downloadable from Nvidia or via apt and I can pin the kernel. Influencing Nvidia to do something about their proprietary drivers isn't really a here and now fix or something that I think will happen in the next week or so (or ever). Do you have any other suggestions?

 

[leesteken]

Do you have any other suggestions?

The NVidia driver problems is not specific to Proxmox. If someone on the internet finds a way to make it work with Linux kernel 6.8 then you can probably use the same "fix". So my suggestion is to not (only) wait for the Proxmox community but (also) widen your search for a solution.

 

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The NVidia driver problems is not specific to Proxmox. If someone on the internet finds a way to make it work with Linux kernel 6.8 then you can probably use the same "fix". So my suggestion is to not (only) wait for the Proxmox community but (also) widen your search for a solution.

Another day lost messing with this. Eventually got the driver (470.256.02) installed from NVidia site but get some infoROM is corrupted at gpu error. I give up. Unclear whether there is actually an issue with the card or whether it is simply drivers - I suspect the latter. Not worth the effort I have spent on this. AMD it is then.