[CentOS] Question on CentoS 7.4 on nvidia

Thu Dec 14 21:51:32 UTC 2017
Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com>

I installed the elrepo kmod-nvidia and also the nvidia-detect and modules
(see below).

I had X working with the 3.10 from Centos  - but video was freezing. SO I
thought I would try the elrepo kernel. I installed that and X does not come
up?

How do I re-make the nvidia module for 4.14.5 kernel? I want to make sure
the kmod kernel did it.   I 'm thinking it did not.

lspci | grep VGA says GT218

Or  what do I look at now to see why X is not coming up?

Thanks,

Jerry

uname -r
4.14.5-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64


grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[   136.998] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module.
Please see the
[   136.998] (EE) NVIDIA:     system's kernel log for additional error
messages and
[   136.998] (EE) NVIDIA:     consult the NVIDIA README for details.
[   136.998] (EE) No devices detected.
[   136.998] (EE)
[   136.998] (EE) no screens found(EE)
[   136.998] (EE)
[   136.998] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log"
for additional information.
[   136.998] (EE)
[   137.004] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

uname -a

rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64
kernel-tools-3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64
abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.1.11-48.el7.centos.x86_64
kernel-headers-3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64
kernel-ml-devel-4.14.5-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64
kernel-3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64
kernel-ml-4.14.5-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64
[root at mediaport14 ~]# rpm -qa | grep kernel-ml
kernel-ml-devel-4.14.5-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
kernel-ml-4.14.5-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64


# rpm -qa | grep nvidia
kmod-nvidia-340xx-340.102-4.el7_4.elrepo.x86_64
nvidia-detect-384.90-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
yum-plugin-nvidia-1.0.2-1.el7.elrepo.noarch
nvidia-x11-drv-340xx-340.102-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64