Re: Question on CentoS 7.4 on nvidia

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I think that nvidia-detect could be helpful even on non-stock kernels to
find out if you need to use "legacy" or "non-legacy" driver :)

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 4:34 PM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yan Li wrote:
> > If you need to use a non stock kernel, you can also try to download the
> > latest driver directly from nvidia. The nvidia official driver is very
> > easy to install and works with almost all kernel versions. It can also be
> > easily uninstalled too.
>
> Make sure you have the correct one, though. I have a number of systems
> with older NVidia cards, and have to pick and choose the correct "legacy"
> driver.
>
>         mark
> >
> > On Dec 14, 2017 1:51 PM, "Jerry Geis" <jerry.geis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> I installed the elrepo kmod-nvidia and also the nvidia-detect and
> >> modules
> >> (see below).
> >>
> >> I had X working with the 3.10 from Centos  - but video was freezing. SO
> >> I
> >> thought I would try the elrepo kernel. I installed that and X does not
> >> come
> >> up?
> >>
> >> How do I re-make the nvidia module for 4.14.5 kernel? I want to make
> >> sure
> >> the kmod kernel did it.   I 'm thinking it did not.
> >>
> >> lspci | grep VGA says GT218
> >>
> >> Or  what do I look at now to see why X is not coming up?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Jerry
> >>
> >> uname -r
> >> 4.14.5-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
> >>
> >>
> >> grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> >> (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> >> [   136.998] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module.
> >> Please see the
> >> [   136.998] (EE) NVIDIA:     system's kernel log for additional error
> >> messages and
> >> [   136.998] (EE) NVIDIA:     consult the NVIDIA README for details.
> >> [   136.998] (EE) No devices detected.
> >> [   136.998] (EE)
> >> [   136.998] (EE) no screens found(EE)
> >> [   136.998] (EE)
> >> [   136.998] (EE) Please also check the log file at
> >> "/var/log/Xorg.0.log"
> >> for additional information.
> >> [   136.998] (EE)
> >> [   137.004] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
> >>
> >> uname -a
> >>
> >> rpm -qa | grep kernel
> >> kernel-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64
> >> kernel-tools-3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64
> >> abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.1.11-48.el7.centos.x86_64
> >> kernel-headers-3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64
> >> kernel-ml-devel-4.14.5-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
> >> kernel-devel-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64
> >> kernel-3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64
> >> kernel-ml-4.14.5-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
> >> kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64
> >> kernel-devel-3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64
> >> [root@mediaport14 ~]# rpm -qa | grep kernel-ml
> >> kernel-ml-devel-4.14.5-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
> >> kernel-ml-4.14.5-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
> >>
> >>
> >> # rpm -qa | grep nvidia
> >> kmod-nvidia-340xx-340.102-4.el7_4.elrepo.x86_64
> >> nvidia-detect-384.90-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
> >> yum-plugin-nvidia-1.0.2-1.el7.elrepo.noarch
> >> nvidia-x11-drv-340xx-340.102-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
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