[CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

Thu Sep 14 03:21:28 UTC 2017
Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu>

On 09/13/2017 04:40 PM, Jerry Geis wrote:
> I am running the propriatry NVIDIA driver 384.69 for GT 720 support.
The ELrepo driver works very well for me with CentOS 7.4.1708 on a Dell 
Precision M6700.  Here's what I have:
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[lowen at localhost ~]$ nvidia-detect -v
Probing for supported NVIDIA devices...
[10de:11be] NVIDIA Corporation GK104GLM [Quadro K3000M]
This device requires the current 384.59 NVIDIA driver kmod-nvidia
[lowen at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa|grep nvidia
nvidia-x11-drv-384.69-2.el7.elrepo.x86_64
nvidia-detect-384.59-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
yum-plugin-nvidia-1.0.2-1.el7.elrepo.noarch
pcp-pmda-nvidia-gpu-3.11.8-7.el7.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-384.69-1.el7_4.elrepo.x86_64
[lowen at localhost ~]$

(nvidia-detect hasn't yet been updated to .69......)  The ELrepo team 
does a great job with this driver; unless you have a compelling need to 
rebuild it yourself (I hesitate to say 'recompile' as, well, there's 
very little to actually compile) you should investigate using the 
ELrepo.org modules that make these sorts of updates much easier.  Thanks 
ELrepo for the modules; thanks CentOS project for the rebuilt OS.

The ELrepo nvidia driver handles the nouveau disabling as well; it's 
seamless, and works.  The only caveat is when your card goes to the 
legacy driver, at which time you'll have to install the legacy version; 
ELrepo builds those too.