NVIDIA Driver Compatibility Issue with RHEL 9.7 (Kernel 5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7) – Tesla P100

mnair
Sun, 28 Dec 2025 18:51:08 +0000
NVIDIA Virtual GPU Drivers

I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.7 with kernel 5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7 on a system equipped with NVIDIA Tesla P100 (GP100) GPUs. When attempting to install the NVIDIA driver using the official CUDA repository, the available packages only provide kmod-nvidia builds for kernel 5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7, not for the currently shipped 5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7 kernel. As a result, the NVIDIA driver cannot be loaded and nvidia-smi fails, even though the system and kernel are otherwise functioning correctly. The driver works when booting into the older kernel, but there appears to be no compatible NVIDIA driver package for the newer RHEL 9.7 kernel. Could you please confirm whether support for kernel 5.14.0-611.16.1.el9_7 is planned for Tesla P100, or advise on the recommended approach going forward?

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