Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 8:20 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Valeri Galtsev wrote:
Now, back to my boxes. NVIDIA declared these fancy cards obsolete (the are only about 6 years old, and hardware still does appropriate job for what we need). There is no proprietary NVIDIA driver which you can
install
with latest kernels (latest speaking CentOS 6 kernels). You know you
have to
compile kernel interface for their binary driver. No way: no updated binary driver for these my obsoleted by NVIDIA cards. So, NVIDIA locked me on these boxes to older kernel.
There is a proprietary driver package that you can build that will support them. I have a Guadro 4000 aka GL100GL on my workstation, and
am running
6.6 current, and NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.40.run, which you can still d/l from NVida's site, for it (I need the proprietary for two screens).
I highly recommend that you install nvidia-detect [1] from ELRepo and run it.
Thanks, Akemi, that's really useful, and I'd never heard of it. I suppose that as it gets updated, it'll tell me the most current legacy to use (in my case, the 310.40 worked, but the 340.58 did not... and that was trial and error.
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