WIP: Blackwell RTX 6000 Pro / Max-Q Quickie Setup Guide on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / 25.04

MarcoBarroca · August 15, 2025, 4:39am

98.02.81.00.07

Same as everyone else.

I actually uploaded it to the techpowerup Vbios collection via GPU-Z about two days ago.

[techpowerup website]/vgabios/278474/278474

H-i-v-e · August 20, 2025, 8:32am

For anyone reading this thread, I was unable to use the displaymodeselector-tool in Linux. I even followed the recommendation someone mentioned here and deactivated Secure Boot. I booted into a Windows installation and the binary from the same download for Windows worked on the first try.

I am not sure what the issue here is, if there are kernel settings, or security settings that might need adjusting. Maybe booting into a live-ISO of a different distribution would have also helped, but on Fedora 42, I had no luck with my setup.

wendell · August 20, 2025, 3:22pm

out of curiosity, was yours dated july 25? thats the ONLY one that worked for me.

H-i-v-e · August 20, 2025, 4:32pm

Yes it was.

eousphoros · August 20, 2025, 8:44pm

I think I had to have SR-IOV enabled, there are a couple features in this area that unexpectedly required it.

EDIT: Should probably have re-sizeable bar enabled too

Arkansaw · August 21, 2025, 2:13am

So you managed to resolve the issue in Windows? And it still works after you switch back to Linux?

H-i-v-e · August 21, 2025, 6:14am

Correct, I used the displaymodeselector-tool in Windows and the change is permanent and persists across reboots and across different OS’.

H-i-v-e · August 21, 2025, 3:56pm

Has anyone here managed to pass through MIG instances to virtual machines? On my Fedora installation no MDEVs turn up and I apparently can’t pass through like Wendel described in the other thread. SR-IOV is turned on in the UEFI.

wendell · August 21, 2025, 4:58pm

can’t use the UUID?

H-i-v-e · August 21, 2025, 5:07pm

Wrote already in the other thread. I have Fedora 42 with the nvidia-compute driver and it does not find a device with that UUID. Also when I use virt-manager to select an MDEV via the GUI it does not find any MDEVs.

Currently setting up VMs with Fedora 42 and the full nvida driver as well es Ubuntu 24.02 to see if they behave differently.

Arkansaw · August 21, 2025, 5:28pm

Someone confirmed Server Edition supports 300W to 600W for power limit

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1me2ir6/comment/n6z7mdp

H-i-v-e · August 21, 2025, 7:22pm

Which OS did you test on and did you use the full nvidia driver with display or the compute only driver?

wendell · August 21, 2025, 7:58pm

linux, compute only

H-i-v-e · August 21, 2025, 8:01pm

Which distribution?

wendell · August 21, 2025, 8:24pm

arch

H-i-v-e · August 21, 2025, 8:29pm

Thanks might try it too.

wendell · August 21, 2025, 8:30pm

its a bit sketch, the uuid method. I “think” it’ll work with the enterprise driver AND vgpu technically does still have a path to working, but compue drivers on the host then passthrough to guest should be okay. It was a bit wonky for me, too, and I hope to do a separate video on it soonish.

I was really hoping the sr-iov> hyperv path was viable, too, but htats not looking good

H-i-v-e · August 21, 2025, 8:34pm

I am still investigating why Fedora does not see any MDEV devices. nvidia-smi shows the MIG instances exist but they seem to register neither with the MEDV system nor with the PCI system. But I feel too that this is uncharted territory and there is a lot to figure out for us. I’ll be sure to report and try Arch as well.

eousphoros · August 21, 2025, 10:15pm

Is your resizeable bar stuff working?

H-i-v-e · August 22, 2025, 8:29am

I think so, it’s enabled in the BIOS and nvidia-smi shows that each MIG instance gets a chunk of the bar assigned.