John Hodrien wrote:

On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

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Fully updated 7.2 system. I installed the correct proprietary NVidia driver (the user's expensive proprietary visualization software won't run with nouveau), I've put nouveau.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau on the kernel line for grub2, and even yum removed the nouveau driver and built a new initrd... which won't boot, it seems to start and than does nothing, with a black screen, and this is just while booting, before it goes to graphical mode.

If I boot the as-built current initramfs, it loads nouveau, though one of the modules listed if I do lsmod | grep nou shows nvidia, in addition to nouveau.

So, in 7, what do I have to do to make nouveau go away? Is it as simple as creating an /etc/X11/xorg.conf, or...?

Do you have a sound reason for not using elrepo's packaged nvidia driver?

Because I was looking late Friday afternoon, and had a vague memory that they'd dropped support for this card (the "newer" machine is only six or seven years old, as opposed to the 10-yr-old one tht died: this is your tax dollars at work, US citizens... and, btw, I see among the things this researcher's working on is modelling the Zika virus....).

I was busting butt to get him running; as it was, he couldn't work over the weekend, and it took me until lunchtime to get him up and running for now (I *adore* NAC on the switches....).

Now that he's running, I just looked, and I see that the legacy 304 kmod-nvidia driver should support it, so, next time he's out for a day, I'll try installing that.

Thanks for the reminder.

mark

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of John Hodrien Sent: den 29 februari 2016 17:55 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.2, nouveau won't go away

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Fully updated 7.2 system. I installed the correct proprietary NVidia driver (the user's expensive proprietary visualization software won't run with nouveau), I've put nouveau.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau on the kernel line for grub2, and even yum removed the nouveau driver and built a new initrd... which won't boot, it seems to start and than does nothing, with a black screen, and this is just while booting, before it goes to graphical mode.

If I boot the as-built current initramfs, it loads nouveau, though one of the modules listed if I do lsmod | grep nou shows nvidia, in addition to nouveau.

So, in 7, what do I have to do to make nouveau go away? Is it as

simple

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as creating an /etc/X11/xorg.conf, or...?

Do you have a sound reason for not using elrepo's packaged nvidia driver?

I'm guessing the OP's using Nvidias 3D-vision features, which at least over here never worked properly with the elrepo package.

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Akemi Yagi Sent: den 3 mars 2016 08:20 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.2, nouveau won't go away

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Sorin Srbu Sorin.Srbu@orgfarm.uu.se wrote:

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Do you have a sound reason for not using elrepo's packaged nvidia

driver?

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I'm guessing the OP's using Nvidias 3D-vision features, which at least

over

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here never worked properly with the elrepo package.

Just curious. Is there a Linux driver for Nvidia's 3D vision?

Now when you mention it, I'm not that sure... 8-S It's been a while since I dabbled with those pesky drivers to enable the 3D-features.

"01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF100GL [Quadro 4000] (rev a3)"

Used a 3D-monitor as well as outputting the same 3D-image to a 3D-projector.

The computer needing this was only able to output the 3D-image when we used the proprietary driver from Nvidia.

I recall there were some issues enabling this on Windows 7 as well at the time, but that's outside the scope of this list. 8-)