[CentOS] Issues with NVidia video driver and CentOS

[Felipe Westfields]

Oh, this might be the issue - yum says it can't open
"nvidia-x11-drv-304xx-304.135-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm" - let me download it
again and see what happens.

Are there md5 hash sums on these files?


On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 3:23 PM, Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org> wrote:

> On 08/02/18 15:10, Felipe Westfields wrote:
>
>> I copied the error message exactly as it was on the screen
>>
>>
> As John said, you are mistaken:
>
> $ rpm -qp --requires nvidia-x11-drv-304xx-304.135-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> /bin/sh
> /bin/sh
> /bin/sh
> /bin/sh
> /bin/sh
> /sbin/ldconfig
> /usr/bin/python
> config(nvidia-x11-drv-304xx) = 304.135-1.el6.elrepo
> grubby
> grubby
> libGL.so.1()(64bit)
> libOpenCL.so.1()(64bit)
> libX11.so.6()(64bit)
> libXext.so.6()(64bit)
> libXv.so.1()(64bit)
> libXvMC.so.1()(64bit)
> libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1()(64bit)
> libatk-1.0.so.0()(64bit)
> libc.so.6()(64bit)
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
> libcuda.so.1()(64bit)
> libdl.so.2()(64bit)
> libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
> libgcc_s.so.1()(64bit)
> libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.0)(64bit)
> libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.3)(64bit)
> libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
> libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
> libglib-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
> libgmodule-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
> libgobject-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
> libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
> libm.so.6()(64bit)
> libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
> libnvcuvid.so.1()(64bit)
> libnvidia-cfg.so.1()(64bit)
> libnvidia-glcore.so.304.135()(64bit)
> libnvidia-ml.so.1()(64bit)
> libnvidia-opencl.so.1()(64bit)
> libnvidia-tls.so.304.135()(64bit)
> libpango-1.0.so.0()(64bit)
> libpthread.so.0()(64bit)
> libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
> librt.so.1()(64bit)
> librt.so.1(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
> libvdpau_nvidia.so.1()(64bit)
> libz.so.1()(64bit)
> nvidia-304xx-kmod = 304.135
> nvidia-304xx-kmod = 304.135
> pyxf86config
> pyxf86config
> rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
> rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
> rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg <= 1.19.99
> rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1
>
>
> Just 'cd' to the directory where you have place the 3 RPMs you mentioned
> earlier:
>
> 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
>
>
> and install them with yum:
>
> yum install 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
>
> and you are done.
>
> There are no additional dependencies that are not in CentOS.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 10:07 AM, John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2018, Felipe Westfields wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm on a network that is disconnected from the internet; makes things
>>> kind
>>>
>>>> of awkward sometimes. We have some internal repositories that are
>>>> supposed
>>>> to mirror centos, and EPEL - don't have one (that I'm aware of) that
>>>> mirrors elrepo.
>>>> But it looks like it's looking for just that one package; if that's all
>>>> I
>>>> need to get these installed, then hopefully this can be wrapped up.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Thing is, what you've posted makes no sense to me.
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> In short, you're saying that
>>> nvidia-x11-drv-304xx-304.135-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm requires
>>> NVidia-x11-drv-304xx = 304.135
>>>
>>> I find this hard to believe, given you're really saying it requires
>>> itself.
>>>
>>> How about you don't summarise what you've done, but download again the
>>> files
>>> you think you need, and paste actual output when you get errors.
>>>
>>>
>>> jh
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