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

hw hw at gc-24.de
Wed Sep 27 16:21:44 UTC 2017


m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Hi, folks,
>
>    Well, still more fun (for values of fun approaching zero):
>
>    1. Went to install CUDA 9.0... well, gee, there is *no* CUDA 9.0.
>         Even though I installed the 9 repo, all that I get is 8. I've
>         used their webform, and an waiting on a reply.
>    2. I remove all nvidia packages.
>    3. It appears that the kmod-nvidia is what I need; that's what
>         nvidia-detect says. So I try to install... bzzt, thank you
>         for playing.

If your intention is to use current NVIDIA drivers, you could try the
download from their website.  I´ve had good success with installing them
directly from the download NVIDIA provides.

I know we aren´t supposed to do that, but after using that for years and
then using distribution-provided NVIDIA drivers, I went back to the NVIDIA
package because that was far more trouble-free and continues to be so.
When you get a new kernel and when some libraries are updated, you need to
reinstall the NVIDIA drivers, but I can live with that.

>
>       a: uname -a:  3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Sep 12 22:26:13
> UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>       b:
>   Installing : kmod-nvidia-384.90-1.el7_4.elrepo.x86_64
>  1/2
>
> Broadcast message from systemd-journald at lyon.cit.nih.gov (Wed 2017-09-27
> 11:43:12 EDT):
>
> dracut[32409]: /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64//modules.dep is missing.
> Did you run depmod?
>
>
> Message from syslogd at lyon at Sep 27 11:43:12 ...
>  dracut:/lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64//modules.dep is missing. Did
> you run depmod?
>
> Message from syslogd at lyon at Sep 27 11:43:12 ...
>  dracut: /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64//modules.dep is missing. Did
> you run depmod?
> Working. This may take some time ...
> /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64//modules.dep is missing. Did you run
> depmod?
> /sbin/weak-modules: line 116: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64.tmp:
> No such file or directory
> /sbin/weak-modules: line 132: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64.tmp:
> No such file or directory
> /sbin/weak-modules: line 137: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64.tmp:
> No such file or directory
> Unable to decompress /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64.tmp: Unknown
> format
> /sbin/weak-modules: line 175: /tmp/weak-modules.oC1A7x/new_initramfs.img:
> No such file or directory
> rm: cannot remove '/tmp/weak-modules.oC1A7x/new_initramfs.img': No such
> file or directory
> mv: cannot stat '/boot/initramfs-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64.tmp': No such file
> or directory
> Done.
>   Installing : nvidia-x11-drv-384.90-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
>  2/2
> etckeeper: post transaction commit
>   Verifying  : kmod-nvidia-384.90-1.el7_4.elrepo.x86_64
>  1/2
>   Verifying  : nvidia-x11-drv-384.90-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
>  2/2
>
> Installed:
>   kmod-nvidia.x86_64 0:384.90-1.el7_4.elrepo
>
> Dependency Installed:
>   nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64 0:384.90-1.el7.elrepo
>
> Complete!
>
> Well, no it's not complete, and it's trying to install in the *previous*
> kernel, not the running one.
>
>      mark
>
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