I recently installed an RTX 5090 but couldn’t get it recognized using the latest driver (v570.133.07). I saw kernel log errors indicating that the GPU requires the kernel modules, so I switched to the Open Source Driver: v570.86.16, which correctly installed the open kernel module and the card was detected successfully.

 

Does anyone know why this is the case? It’s great that the open driver works, but I’d prefer to be on the latest proprietary driver for stability, if possible. Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks so much, this has been such hard work to figure out. I upgraded my motherboard BIOS, changed the pcie to 4.0, reloaded my drivers, etc. but this was the fix

Same here, this was the fix for getting NVIDIA RTX-5090 detected in nvidia-smi. Before this I was seeing "No devices were found".

It is always better to ask in the appropriate support thread (Nvidia Plugin, in this case).

 

But the short answer is likely because the RTX 5090 is so recently released (3 months ago, Jan 2025).  Support for new hardware takes time for it to be developed, tested and deployed as stable in the Linux world.  Even more so for server code.

Any idea when I can download the official driver? Trying to utilize a W11 VDI and pass through to the 5090 for the GPU but full server GUI crashesh, VM just maintain starting mode and then have to reboot via command line

Hello,

is 5090 already working under Unraid? I am thinking about buying one, but I need it working for Docker and also for VM (Passthrough).

Thanks.