[CentOS] NVidia, again

Wed Mar 26 12:03:14 UTC 2014
mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

On 03/25/14 19:31, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> 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.
>
> Elrepo kmod drivers are not an option? First nvidia-detect then selected
> packages...
>
I had kmod-nvidia from elrepo - as I said, as a last resort, I yum removed it 
(along with the x11-drv-nvidia, a dependency) - and built proprietary, trying 
to eliminate all interactions.

	mark