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

[Pete Biggs]

On Tue, 2017-09-26 at 14:18 -0400, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Scott Robbins <scottro11 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 01:40:54PM -0400, 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.
> > 
> > Why not use the elrepo repo? They've worked flawlessly for me, both with
> > legacy and new cards.
> > 
> > 
> Seconded. We use the elrepo repository for hundreds of workstations and
> have had no issues. Takes care of everything automatically.
> 

Yes, but these are Tesla cards with the CUDA toolkit - I've never got
the elrepo versions to run work properly when developing CUDA
applications.

P.