[CentOS] NVidia, again

Tue Mar 25 23:31:53 UTC 2014
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs>

On 03/25/2014 10:36 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Got a HBS (y'know, Honkin' Big Server, one o' them technical terms), a
> Dell 720 with two Tesla GPUs. I updated the o/s, 6.5, and I cannot get the
> GPUs recognized. As a last resort, I d/l NVidia's proprietary
> driver/installer, 325, and it builds fine... I've yum removed the
> kmod-nvidia I had on the system, nouveau is blacklisted, and when I
> reboot, lsmod shows me nvidia loaded, which modinfo tells me looks like
> the one I built.... but enum_gpu, which is from a CUDA group, builds...
> but can't enumerate the GPUs (how we wake them up for the users). I see
> the /dev/nvidia*, and they're a+r, a+w.... Oh, and selinux is permissive.
>
> Anyone got a clue? If I can't get this working, I'm going to have to
> downgrade the system several kernels.
>
>         mark

Elrepo kmod drivers are not an option? First nvidia-detect then selected 
packages...


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