[CentOS] NVidia, again

Wed Mar 26 12:01:49 UTC 2014
mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

On 03/26/14 03:01, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 03/25/2014 04:36 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.
>
> Do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file or something in
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ that actually name nvidia and not nv as the driver?

Nope - nothing there.

	mark