On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/13/2017 04:40 PM, Jerry Geis wrote:
>
>> I am running the propriatry NVIDIA driver 384.69 for GT 720 support.
>>
> The ELrepo driver works very well for me with CentOS 7.4.1708 on a Dell
> Precision M6700. Here's what I have:
> ++++++
> [lowen@localhost ~]$ nvidia-detect -v
> Probing for supported NVIDIA devices...
> [10de:11be] NVIDIA Corporation GK104GLM [Quadro K3000M]
> This device requires the current 384.59 NVIDIA driver kmod-nvidia
> [lowen@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa|grep nvidia
> nvidia-x11-drv-384.69-2.el7.elrepo.x86_64
> nvidia-detect-384.59-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
> yum-plugin-nvidia-1.0.2-1.el7.elrepo.noarch
> pcp-pmda-nvidia-gpu-3.11.8-7.el7.x86_64
> kmod-nvidia-384.69-1.el7_4.elrepo.x86_64
> [lowen@localhost ~]$
>
> (nvidia-detect hasn't yet been updated to .69......) The ELrepo team does
> a great job with this driver; unless you have a compelling need to rebuild
> it yourself (I hesitate to say 'recompile' as, well, there's very little to
> actually compile) you should investigate using the ELrepo.org modules that
> make these sorts of updates much easier. Thanks ELrepo for the modules;
> thanks CentOS project for the rebuilt OS.
>
> The ELrepo nvidia driver handles the nouveau disabling as well; it's
> seamless, and works. The only caveat is when your card goes to the legacy
> driver, at which time you'll have to install the legacy version; ELrepo
> builds those too.
Right, and one other aspect of ELRepo's kmod package is that it survives
kernel updates silently. With Nvidia's script, you need to run it upon
every kernel update.
Akemi
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