[CentOS] Semi-OT: hardware: NVidia proprietary driver, C7.4

Wed Sep 27 06:56:10 UTC 2017
Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Phil Perry
> Sent: den 26 september 2017 21:46
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Semi-OT: hardware: NVidia proprietary driver, C7.4
> 
> On 26/09/17 18:40, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> > This is really frustrating. I've got a server with two K20c Tesla cards.
I
> > need to use the proprietary drivers to use the CUDA toolkit. Btw, I had
no
> > trouble at all with building for CentOS 7.3
> >
> > I have what NVidia claims is the correct driver package, a 340 series.
It
> > appears to build, but then fails to load. The only error I see is "no
such
> > device", which makes no sense to me, esp. since it says nothing whatever
> > else.
> >
> > I've gone through the install log, and there are a bunch of Note:, and
> > warnings, but the later I think are all about comparing signed and
> > unsigned integers.
> >
> > And lsmod shows no nvidia drivers registered, but the logs claims that
> > Error: Driver 'nvidia' is already registered, aborting...
> >
> > Anyone got any ideas?
> >
> >         mark
> >
> 
> You don't say which version of the 340 series driver you have tried.
> 
> There was a bug with recent legacy releases that affected el7.4 kernels.
> We (elrepo) patched the driver to fix that on rhel7.4 releases. I'm not
> sure but it _may_ have been fixed in the 340.104 driver released last
> week - I've not bothered building it as the changelog only mentions
> "Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels" which we
> patched/fixed in our the previous release and other issues which don't
> affect kmods on RHEL.
> 
> So it sounds like a known issue which has already been fixed. If you
> don't want to use our packages, maybe take a look at the patch and try
> applying it to your build.

Tested 340.76, 340.102, 340.104 (elrepo and proprietary). 
No luck over here with a GTX260 and the 64b-drivers.

Will test some more, if still no luck, I'll just reinstall from scratch.

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//Sorin