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On 07/08/2017 02:45 AM, Ed Greshko
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On 07/08/17 16:47, Paul Allen Newell wrote:I can't begin to figure out what is happening and where to report as I am too much of a newbie regarding NVidia on LinuxProblems with nouveau, like all packages actually supplied by fedora project, should be filed at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ If you have problems with nouveau and you report them you must continue to run nouveau since as part of the bugzilla process you may be asked to perform additional tests and/or provide more information. If you report a nouveau problem, switch to nVidia drivers, and are then asked for more information but are unable/unwilling to supply it you can expect the bugzilla to be closed without getting fixed.What I can offer is that I installed NVidia drivers from ElRepo repository on Centos 7 and have seen no problems except for some noise between SELinux and the NVidia install. This repository was suggested to me from Autodesk which clearly has an interest in trying to run on NVidia. When I mentioned rpm-fusion, they "hinted" that I might be better off on ElRepo.The advice you've been given "may" be appropriate for Centos7 which is a long-life distribution. If one would check ELRepo's website they'd find that the latest driver is version 346.35. When it comes to Fedora, and/or the desire for quicker bug fixes and support for the latest video HW, then RPMFusion is a better choice. They package the latest released (not beta) nVidia drivers. They are currently at 375.66. RPMFusion also provides you with "akmod" support. This is beneficial as it allows the kmod-nvidia packages/drivers to be rebuilt for newly released kernel updates which can happen frequently with Fedora.For what it is worth, I have not gotten "great response" out of RHEL/Centos on issues regarding the introduction of NVidia drivers ... I think that once one installs them "one is on one's own" in that RHEL/Centos worldOnce you install any package which "taints" the kernel you can expect little help from Fedora or Red Hat in resolving kernel related issues. You also won't get help with any packages not supplied by them. Ed: Thanks for correcting me on the Centos vs Fedora issue, I made a leap of faith that I shouldn't have. That being said, if you say RPMFusion is 375.66 then that is the same one available at ElRepo. Isn't the version available based on graphic card rather than opSys. And I did not know about RPMFusion / akmod support ... I figured updates from NVidia would be unlikely for RHEL / Centos but was wondering what I would have to do if I discovered there was one. I did query Centos bugzilla about the SELinux noise and realized a few days afterwards that the odds were good that silence was going to be the answer. I kinda hoped for a "yeah, that's expected" but that was a bit naive of me. Best, Paul |
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