Hi,
I'm currently trying to install CentOS 7 (desktop) on a Lenovo workstation with an NVidia Quadro 2000 graphical card.
Normally I know my way around NVidia cards and how to configure them either using the ELRepo drivers or those downloaded from nvidia.com. I have written a corresponding article on my blog:
https://blog.microlinux.fr/nvidia-centos/
But this time it looks like I have no luck. ELRepo's nvidia-detect utility detected the 'kmod-nvidia' driver, but installing it gave no result. No X.
Then I tried a manual install, blacklisting nouveau, installing the necessary build tools, etc. The driver would build OK, but again, no luck, no X.
Has anybody got this card to behave under RHEL/CentOS 7 ?
Cheers,
Niki
Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
I'm currently trying to install CentOS 7 (desktop) on a Lenovo workstation with an NVidia Quadro 2000 graphical card.
Has anybody got this card to behave under RHEL/CentOS 7 ?
I'm using the following on CentOS 7.4:
uname -r :
3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64
Model: Quadro 2000 IRQ: 31 GPU UUID: GPU-6ecc2b2b-34ce-6e47-1e08-55389dc64680 Video BIOS: 70.06.31.02.01 Bus Type: PCIe DMA Size: 40 bits DMA Mask: 0xffffffffff Bus Location: 0000:0f:00.0 Device Minor: 0
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 384.90 Tue Sep 19 19:17:35 PDT 2017 GCC version: gcc version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-16) (GCC)
I manually built the driver - from the nvidia-installer.log :
nvidia-installer command line: ./nvidia-installer --accept-license --no-questions --silent --install-libglvnd
The nouveau driver is blacklisted via the boot cmdline option:
rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau
Works fine for me ...
James Pearson
Le 10/11/2017 à 09:39, James Pearson a écrit :
I manually built the driver - from the nvidia-installer.log :
nvidia-installer command line: ./nvidia-installer --accept-license --no-questions --silent --install-libglvnd
The nouveau driver is blacklisted via the boot cmdline option:
rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau
Works fine for me ...
Hmmmm. I have exactly the same setup, and KDE looks like LEGO for toddlers (something like 640x480). I checked that 'nouveau' is blacklisted, built the NVidia 384.90 driver manually, rebooted, and no joy.
I started a KDE neon LiveCD (with very good automatic hardware configuration) on that same workstation, and everything seems OK, resolution looks like 1280x1024 on the 19" monitor.
I'm puzzled.
Nicolas,
Did you play with nvidia-settings? Maybe also wipe out xorg.conf and start afresh.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicolas Kovacs" info@microlinux.fr To: "James Pearson" james-p@moving-picture.com, "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Friday, 10 November, 2017 11:02:30 Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 + NVidia Quadro 2000 graphic card
Le 10/11/2017 à 09:39, James Pearson a écrit :
I manually built the driver - from the nvidia-installer.log :
nvidia-installer command line: ./nvidia-installer --accept-license --no-questions --silent --install-libglvnd
The nouveau driver is blacklisted via the boot cmdline option:
rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau
Works fine for me ...
Hmmmm. I have exactly the same setup, and KDE looks like LEGO for toddlers (something like 640x480). I checked that 'nouveau' is blacklisted, built the NVidia 384.90 driver manually, rebooted, and no joy.
I started a KDE neon LiveCD (with very good automatic hardware configuration) on that same workstation, and everything seems OK, resolution looks like 1280x1024 on the 19" monitor.
I'm puzzled.
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Le 10/11/2017 à 14:42, Nux! a écrit :
Did you play with nvidia-settings? Maybe also wipe out xorg.conf and start afresh.
Thanks for all your suggestions. I spent a few hours fiddling with various driver versions and configurations. In the end, I simply ripped out the %&#@$ Quadro card and replaced it with a GeForce 8300, which works perfectly with the kmod-nvidia-340xx driver.
Cheers,
Niki
Yes, sometimes the only winning move is not to play. :-D
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicolas Kovacs" info@microlinux.fr To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Saturday, 11 November, 2017 09:18:39 Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 + NVidia Quadro 2000 graphic card
Le 10/11/2017 à 14:42, Nux! a écrit :
Did you play with nvidia-settings? Maybe also wipe out xorg.conf and start afresh.
Thanks for all your suggestions. I spent a few hours fiddling with various driver versions and configurations. In the end, I simply ripped out the %&#@$ Quadro card and replaced it with a GeForce 8300, which works perfectly with the kmod-nvidia-340xx driver.
Cheers,
Niki
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Le 11/11/2017 à 13:19, Nux! a écrit :
Yes, sometimes the only winning move is not to play. :-D
It was either this or throwing the whole workstation out of the window altogether. I'm a very patient guy (or I wouldn't work as a sysadmin) but even I have my limits.
:o)
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