[CentOS] Issues with NVidia video driver and CentOS

Wed Feb 7 19:13:14 UTC 2018
Felipe Westfields <felipe.westfields at gmail.com>

I'm trying to reinstall the elrepo drivers.
Removed the existing elrepo drivers
Downloaded the following elrepo drivers:

nvidia-x11-drv-304xx-304.135-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
kmod-nvidia-304xx-304.135-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
nvidia-x11-drv-304xx-32bit-304.135-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

that first one appears to have a dependency on "NVidia-x11-drv-304xx =
304.135" and I can't find that package anywhere - I've checked CentOS base,
the EPEL repositories, and the elrepo repositories, RPMfind.

Do you know where I can find it?

Thanks,

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 2:44 PM, Felipe Westfields <
felipe.westfields at gmail.com> wrote:

> We do have the elrepo drivers installed. Maybe part of the problem is also
> that we're using an IOgear KVM switch?
>
> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 11:58 AM, Phelps, Matthew <mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Felipe Westfields <
>> felipe.westfields at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm having issues with a quad video card on CentOS.
>> >
>> > We have several systems on CentOS 6.8 and CentOS 6.9. The installed
>> > hardware is:
>> >
>> > Video card - Nvidia NVS quadro 440
>> > PC - Dell OptiPlex 9020
>> >
>> > Whenever you update the kernel, it kills the graphical interface. The
>> > system appears to lock up and freeze during a reboot, but you can still
>> get
>> > into it with SSH, or, if you're at the console, control-alt-F2 gets you
>> to
>> > a command prompt.
>> >
>> > If you exclude the kernel update when applying yum update, it is usually
>> > fine. If the kernel update is applied, and you roll back the update,
>> that
>> > sometimes gets you back into the graphical console, but more likely than
>> > not, it won't.
>> >
>> > Not sure where to go with this.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions?
>> >
>> > FW
>> > _______________________________________________
>> >
>>
>> Which version of the driver? How did you install it?
>>
>> If you're not already using it, I heartily recommend using the ELRepo
>> repository, http://elrepo.org/tiki/. We have several dozen CO 6.9
>> machines
>> with various Nvidia cards and except for a recent version that had an
>> issue
>> with DVI connections (not the repository's fault), we haven't had any
>> problems.
>>
>> --
>> Matt Phelps
>> System Administrator, Computation Facility
>> Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
>> mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu
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