Actually, the 590 driver does indeed support my older, Turing Quadro RTX 4000. It's up and running perfectly fine, Plex and Immich see it and are definitely utilizing it.Your hardware is supported by neither that 590 nor the 550 series of driver. What did the AI say to do?
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root@server-pc:~# nvidia-smiTue Jan 6 08:29:35 2026+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+| NVIDIA-SMI 590.48.01 Driver Version: 590.48.01 CUDA Version: 13.1 |+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC || Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. || | | MIG M. ||=========================================+========================+======================|| 0 Quadro RTX 4000 On | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A || 30% 32C P8 9W / 125W | 9MiB / 8192MiB | 0% Default || | | N/A |+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+| Processes: || GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory || ID ID Usage ||=========================================================================================|| 0 N/A N/A 1778 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 4MiB |+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+root@server-pc:~# lsmod | egrep '^(nvidia|nouveau)'nvidia_uvm 2035712 2nvidia_drm 143360 3nvidia_modeset 1789952 4 nvidia_drmnvidia 106381312 45 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modesetroot@server-pc:~# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/versionNVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 590.48.01 Mon Dec 8 11:22:45 UTC 2025GCC version: gcc version 14.2.0 (Debian 14.2.0-19)root@server-pc:~# uname -r6.12.57+deb13-amd64root@server-pc:~# dkms status | grep -i nvidianvidia/590.48.01, 6.12.57+deb13-amd64, x86_64: installedroot@server-pc:~# ls -l /dev/nvidia* | head -n 20crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 0 Jan 6 05:20 /dev/nvidia0crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 255 Jan 6 05:20 /dev/nvidiactlcrw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 254 Jan 6 05:20 /dev/nvidia-modesetcrw-rw-rw- 1 root root 511, 0 Jan 6 05:20 /dev/nvidia-uvmcrw-rw-rw- 1 root root 511, 1 Jan 6 05:20 /dev/nvidia-uvm-tools/dev/nvidia-caps:total 0cr-------- 1 root root 236, 1 Jan 6 05:20 nvidia-cap1cr--r--r-- 1 root root 236, 2 Jan 6 05:20 nvidia-cap2Statistics: Posted by road hazard — 2026-01-06 13:32