Installation of Dell T7600 CentOS 7.6 Nvidia GPU Driver
Make sure that the Dell T7600 is attached to a network.
Install OS if required: Boot USB CentOS 7.6 distribution
Use arrow keys to position to ‘Install CentOS 7’
Enter <Tab>
Use arrow keys to insert at the end of boot command line: <space>nouveau.modeset=0<cr>
Build CentOS 7.6 making sure that the network is enabled during the configuration phase
Reboot making sure that the USB CentOS 7.6 distribution is removed
Common procedure: At CentOS boot prompt enter <e>
Use arrow keys to insert at end of line starting ‘linux16’: <space>nouveau.modeset=0
Enter <Ctrl+X>
Log in, start a terminal window and become superuser
Enter: yum -y update kernel-3.10.0-1160.11.1.el7.x86_64
Enter: cd /etc/default then edit the file grub
Change: GRUB_DEFAULT=0
Append to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX before last “: <space>nouveau.modeset=0
Enter: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Enter: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/centos/grub.cfg
Enter Browser and go to: www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
Download Nvidia Legacy Driver 390.138 and save *
Reboot making sure the 1160.11 kernel is selected
Log in, start a terminal window and become superuser
Enter: yum -y groupinstall “Development Tools”
Enter: yum -y install kernel-devel epel-release
Enter: systemctl isolate multi-user.target
Log in and become superuser
Change directory to where the Nvidia driver was saved *
Enter: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-* and answer Yes/Overwrite to everything
Reboot making sure that the 1160.11 kernel is selected
The procedure is now complete
To check the driver is installed correctly: Log in, start a terminal window and become superuser
Enter: lshw – numeric -C display
The configuration line should have: driver=nvidia
nvidia-settings can now be used to change display settings
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: CentOS <centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Anthony K
Sent: 01 May 2021 06:57
To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Slightly OT] video driver for NVIDIA Quadro
On 1/5/21 3:53 pm, Anthony K wrote:
> On 29/4/21 11:55 pm, R C wrote:
>> ...
>> I was able to build/compile the drivers with
>> NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-460.73.01.run on 4.18.0-240.22.1.el8_3.x86_64, it
>> gave me a warning about pkcfg, but no other warnings/errors and seem
>> to install, however, after booting it still didn't use that driver,
>> but the nouveau one ...
Dang it - formatting destroyed again... Thunderbird - The bane of email on Linux...
One more attempt:
Not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison as I'm on Ubuntu, but just to show that Nvidia still supports this card (I'm on the same laptop -
m6700 - though lower powered GPU).
I have enabled Optimus in the BIOS and also installed bumblee for Optimus [1] support.
$ ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 == modalias : pci:v000010DEd000011BEsv00001028sd0000153Fbc03sc00i00
vendor : NVIDIA Corporation
model : GK104GLM [Quadro K3000M]
driver : nvidia-driver-390 - distro non-free recommended driver : nvidia-340 - distro non-free driver : nvidia-driver-418-server - distro non-free driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin
$ dpkg -l nvidia* *bee*| awk '/^(Des|\| Sta!|\||\+)/{print}; /^ii/{print}'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-================================-========================-==========
+++==-===============================================
ii bumblebee 3.2.1-22 amd64 NVIDIA Optimus support for Linux ii nvidia-compute-utils-390 390.141-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
amd64 NVIDIA compute utilities
ii nvidia-dkms-390 390.141-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
amd64 NVIDIA DKMS package
ii nvidia-driver-390 390.141-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
amd64 NVIDIA driver metapackage
ii nvidia-kernel-common-390 390.141-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
amd64 Shared files used with the kernel module ii nvidia-kernel-source-390 390.141-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
amd64 NVIDIA kernel source package ii nvidia-prime 0.8.15.3~0.20.04.1 all Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime ii nvidia-settings 440.82-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver ii nvidia-utils-390 390.141-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
amd64 NVIDIA driver support binaries
[1]:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/linux-driver-software-support-for-m6700.696804/
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