Hi all, I'm running C7 on i7 8700k/asus z370-a with an GTX1050. I noticed that there are several problems installing Nvidia proprietary driver. After one week of troubleshooting I got my solution. Hope that can help other user.
I found this https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3438891 but I've not access to this content. In this content seems that the workaround is using lightdm and mask gdm.
The case:
I tried using proprietary driver from nvidia site and from elrepo. In all the case I got system that hungs during boot. In a first time I got message about a device probing (and some kernel trace about i915) and running systemd-analyze blame seems that udev-settle hungs for several minutes. Some suggested to disable udev-settle if you does not have LVM but this is not my case. After this error I got error with GDM (infinite hungs) so I tried lightdm that works blinking.
So I switched to multi-user level, I got always udev-settle hung but running startx system works but with some strange behaviuour.
Now I tried another solution. I installed kernel-lt, kernel-lt-devel and reinstalled NVIDIA driver. All works very well also reenabling graphical runlevel.
best regards
On 09/20/2018 07:04 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
Hi all, I'm running C7 on i7 8700k/asus z370-a with an GTX1050. I noticed that there are several problems installing Nvidia proprietary driver. After one week of troubleshooting I got my solution. Hope that can help other user. ... I tried using proprietary driver from nvidia site and from elrepo.
NVIDIA actually releases their drivers in official RPM format for RHEL/CentOS. Much easier/faster to use and update than their shell script driver. They are in NVIDIA's cuda repo. You can install the repo files from here:
https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads
Choose "rpm (network)" for the last step to get to the yum repo. I use cuda but I think you can just install nvidia-kmod to get the driver only.
A minor problem is that one cuda version and repo are only maintained for about half a year, then NVIDIA moves to next version. If you always want the latest NVIDIA driver, you might need to change the cuda repo URL to point to the latest every year. I only upgrade when TensorFlow supports a new version of CUDA.
This may not solve your specific problem. I just think that there's no reason to going back to use NVIDIA's clumsy .run driver or any 3rd party driver when the official RPMs are easy to use/update.
On 09/20/2018 10:49 AM, Yan Li wrote:
NVIDIA actually releases their drivers in official RPM format for RHEL/CentOS. Much easier/faster to use and update than their shell script driver. They are in NVIDIA's cuda repo. You can install the repo files from here:
https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads
Choose "rpm (network)" for the last step to get to the yum repo. I use cuda but I think you can just install nvidia-kmod to get the driver only.
Just checked. The latest repo changed the package name from nvidia-kmod to dkms-nvidia.
A minor problem is that one cuda version and repo are only maintained for about half a year, then NVIDIA moves to next version. If you always want the latest NVIDIA driver, you might need to change the cuda repo URL to point to the latest every year. I only upgrade when TensorFlow supports a new version of CUDA.
I was wrong on this. NVIDIA now actively updates the repo to always point to the latest driver. No manual update needed.
Alessandro Baggi:
I found this https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3438891 but I've not access to this content. In this content seems that the workaround is using lightdm and mask gdm.
That page is not exactly helpful ... virtually no details
Strangely, it has 'Solution Verified' at the top of the page, but the listed 'Resolution' is:
At this time there is no guaranteed resolution of this issue. Using the Nvidia Beta graphics module sometimes works, but is not guaranteed or supported
What is more puzzling, is that we have probably over a thousand workstations running CentOS 7.5 with Nvidia cards using the proprietary driver and haven't seen any of the 'issues' listed - which are:
* Nvidia proprietary module doesn't work after upgrading to RHEL7.5 * No graphics after updating to RHEL7.5 * Desktop does not start after upgrading to RHEL7.5 with Nvidia graphics driver * Black screen after installing Nvidia proprietary graphics module in RHEL7.5
We're using gdm which launches Mate
James Pearson
On 09/20/2018 10:51 AM, James Pearson wrote:
What is more puzzling, is that we have probably over a thousand workstations running CentOS 7.5 with Nvidia cards using the proprietary driver and haven't seen any of the 'issues' listed - which are:
- Nvidia proprietary module doesn't work after upgrading to RHEL7.5
- No graphics after updating to RHEL7.5
- Desktop does not start after upgrading to RHEL7.5 with Nvidia graphics driver
- Black screen after installing Nvidia proprietary graphics module in RHEL7.5
We're using gdm which launches Mate
I am using the latest CentOS 7.5 gdm/GNOME with 390.30-2.el7 driver from cuda repo. Haven't seen any problem either. Chip is Quadro M2000M.
Hi James, I tried as suggested installing cuda but the problem persist. In a previous c7.5 installation all works as expected but the driver was less then 390.77.
So installing latest cuda nvidia driver for suggested links does not work.
What other can I try?
Il Gio 20 Set 2018, 19:52 James Pearson james-p@moving-picture.com ha scritto:
Alessandro Baggi:
I found this https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3438891 but I've not access to this content. In this content seems that the workaround is using lightdm and mask gdm.
That page is not exactly helpful ... virtually no details
Strangely, it has 'Solution Verified' at the top of the page, but the listed 'Resolution' is:
At this time there is no guaranteed resolution of this issue. Using the Nvidia Beta graphics module sometimes works, but is not guaranteed or supported
What is more puzzling, is that we have probably over a thousand workstations running CentOS 7.5 with Nvidia cards using the proprietary driver and haven't seen any of the 'issues' listed - which are:
- Nvidia proprietary module doesn't work after upgrading to RHEL7.5
- No graphics after updating to RHEL7.5
- Desktop does not start after upgrading to RHEL7.5 with Nvidia graphics
driver
- Black screen after installing Nvidia proprietary graphics module in
RHEL7.5
We're using gdm which launches Mate
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On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 08:56:52PM +0200, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
Hi James, I tried as suggested installing cuda but the problem persist. In a previous c7.5 installation all works as expected but the driver was less then 390.77.
I'm puzzled... I'm running up to date C7 with Nvidia card and the elrepo nvidia bits at 390.87 without problems. Have you tried using the nvidia packages from elrepo?
Unless it is a card or chipset-specific problem. I'm using a GTX750ti.
I'm also running Mate desktop, and right now according to:
ls -l /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 35 Dec 2 2015 /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service
it is running GDM as the display manager.
Fred
So installing latest cuda nvidia driver for suggested links does not work.
What other can I try?
Il Gio 20 Set 2018, 19:52 James Pearson james-p@moving-picture.com ha scritto:
Alessandro Baggi:
I found this https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3438891 but I've not access to this content. In this content seems that the workaround is using lightdm and mask gdm.
That page is not exactly helpful ... virtually no details
Strangely, it has 'Solution Verified' at the top of the page, but the listed 'Resolution' is:
At this time there is no guaranteed resolution of this issue. Using the Nvidia Beta graphics module sometimes works, but is not guaranteed or supported
What is more puzzling, is that we have probably over a thousand workstations running CentOS 7.5 with Nvidia cards using the proprietary driver and haven't seen any of the 'issues' listed - which are:
- Nvidia proprietary module doesn't work after upgrading to RHEL7.5
- No graphics after updating to RHEL7.5
- Desktop does not start after upgrading to RHEL7.5 with Nvidia graphics
driver
- Black screen after installing Nvidia proprietary graphics module in
RHEL7.5
We're using gdm which launches Mate
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Hi Fred, I tried also elrepo driver but system hangs. I'm using a GTX 1050 ti.
The only way I found to got the gpu correctly working is using elrepo ml kernel.
I tried with an old geforge gt 9500 without any problem.
I don't know if this is an nvidia driver issue or other
Il Lun 1 Ott 2018, 02:52 Fred Smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ha scritto:
On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 08:56:52PM +0200, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
Hi James, I tried as suggested installing cuda but the problem persist. In a previous c7.5 installation all works as expected but the driver was less then 390.77.
I'm puzzled... I'm running up to date C7 with Nvidia card and the elrepo nvidia bits at 390.87 without problems. Have you tried using the nvidia packages from elrepo?
Unless it is a card or chipset-specific problem. I'm using a GTX750ti.
I'm also running Mate desktop, and right now according to:
ls -l /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 35 Dec 2 2015 /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service
it is running GDM as the display manager.
Fred
So installing latest cuda nvidia driver for suggested links does not
work.
What other can I try?
Il Gio 20 Set 2018, 19:52 James Pearson james-p@moving-picture.com ha scritto:
Alessandro Baggi:
I found this https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3438891 but I've
not
access to this content. In this content seems that the workaround is using lightdm and mask gdm.
That page is not exactly helpful ... virtually no details
Strangely, it has 'Solution Verified' at the top of the page, but the listed 'Resolution' is:
At this time there is no guaranteed resolution of this issue. Using
the
Nvidia Beta graphics module sometimes works, but is not guaranteed or supported
What is more puzzling, is that we have probably over a thousand workstations running CentOS 7.5 with Nvidia cards using the proprietary driver and haven't seen any of the 'issues' listed - which are:
- Nvidia proprietary module doesn't work after upgrading to RHEL7.5
- No graphics after updating to RHEL7.5
- Desktop does not start after upgrading to RHEL7.5 with Nvidia
graphics
driver
- Black screen after installing Nvidia proprietary graphics module in
RHEL7.5
We're using gdm which launches Mate
James Pearson _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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