Soon we will get a release of drivers in the 590 branch. So branch 580 will be the last driver branch to support Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta based GPUs.
There is now a long term support for the 580 branch of NVIDIA drivers along with the main one. This repository contains only the 580 driver set in both DKMS and akmod format for supported Enterprise Linux (EPEL) and Fedora releases.
My plan is to maintain this repository until branch is End of Life, which should be around June 2028.
Until then, I’ll try to keep it in sync with the latest changes and updates going into the main repository.
To install this repository on Fedora:
# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# wget https://negativo17.org/repos/fedora-nvidia-580.repoOn Red Hat Enterprise Linux and derivatives:
# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# wget https://negativo17.org/repos/epel-nvidia-580.repoAs usual, the EPEL repository is required for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and above.
The open source kernel modules have been removed, as they are not supported on Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPUs. This makes the kernel module packages smaller and just with the modules supporting this hardware.
Starting with branch 590 the only use case for closed source modules on GPUs that are also supported by open modules is the vGPU case, which anyway as a matrix of supported driver versions and distributions. So starting from 690 I’ll remove the closed source modules and just stick with the open ones from then on.
Source code stuff is available on Github as usual.