Blackmagic Driver for Rocky 9.5

Hi all,

I’m in the process of moving to Rocky 9.5 for all of our Flames. What version of the BMD driver do you need for this. Ideally I’d be running 2025.2.5 but I’m open to whatever the latest version of 2026 is. Either way… installing the driver as I’ve done for the last few years doesn’t seem to work. The driver doesn’t seem to build for some reason. How have y’all solved this?

This is the output I see in terminal after trying to install it. I’ve tried v 12.8.1 because I believe that’s the supported version, but honestly I’ve been running version 14.2 for the last few years without issue.

As root, I’m running: rpm -i desktopvideo-14.2a1.x86_64.rpm

And this is the output:

Preparing new blackmagic driver for 5.14.0-503.14.1.el9_5.x86_64 kernel…
Adding to DKMS
Building (failed)
Preparing new blackmagic-io driver for 5.14.0-503.14.1.el9_5.x86_64 kernel…
Adding to DKMS
Building (failed)
Loading modules…
Enabling systemd services…
DesktopVideoHelper
Starting systemd services…
DesktopVideoHelper

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Failed to build driver(s)

Possible causes:

  1. Driver is incompatible with your kernel version
  2. Kernel headers/gcc/make/etc. is not installed
  3. Kernel header version does not match the running kernel (5.14.0-503.14.1.el9_5.x86_64)

Error messages:
dkms build -m blackmagic -v 14.2a1 --rpm_safe_upgrade

Deprecated feature: CLEAN (/var/lib/dkms/blackmagic/14.2a1/source/dkms.conf)
Sign command: /lib/modules/5.14.0-503.14.1.el9_5.x86_64/build/scripts/sign-file
Signing key: /var/lib/dkms/mok.key
Public certificate (MOK): /var/lib/dkms/mok.pub

Building module(s)…(bad exit status: 2)
Failed command:
make -j64 KERNELRELEASE=5.14.0-503.14.1.el9_5.x86_64 KERNELRELEASE=5.14.0-503.14.1.el9_5.x86_64

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.14.0-503.14.1.el9_5.x86_64 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/blackmagic/14.2a1/build/make.log for more information.

dkms build -m blackmagic-io -v 14.2a1 --rpm_safe_upgrade

Deprecated feature: CLEAN (/var/lib/dkms/blackmagic-io/14.2a1/source/dkms.conf)
Sign command: /lib/modules/5.14.0-503.14.1.el9_5.x86_64/build/scripts/sign-file
Signing key: /var/lib/dkms/mok.key
Public certificate (MOK): /var/lib/dkms/mok.pub

Building module(s)…(bad exit status: 2)
Failed command:
make -j64 KERNELRELEASE=5.14.0-503.14.1.el9_5.x86_64 KERNELRELEASE=5.14.0-503.14.1.el9_5.x86_64

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.14.0-503.14.1.el9_5.x86_64 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/blackmagic-io/14.2a1/build/make.log for more information.

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Any thoughts or experience with this? Many thanks and good karma to the good people.

That driver is super old. Start with the Autodesk Flame System Requirements for the version you require.

Latest is 15.3.1.

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/flame-2026-sysreqs.html

That driver’s not super old, you’re super old.

But that did the trick. Thank you!

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