[CentOS] nvidia on 7.6

Fred Smith fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Wed Mar 6 14:59:54 UTC 2019


On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 07:26:42AM -0500, Pete Geenhuizen wrote:
> 
> On 03/02/2019 05:41 AM, Phil Perry wrote:
> >
> >Hi Gerry,
> >
> >I've updated the nvidia 340xx legacy package set for el7.6, and
> >released the packages to the elrepo testing repository.
> >
> >Please could you test them and let me know if they work as
> >expected. To install:
> >
> >yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing install kmod-nvidia-340xx
> >nvidia-x11-drv-340xx nvidia-x11-drv-340xx-libs
> >
> >if you need 32-bit support then you will also need to install the
> >corresponding
> >nvidia-x11-drv-340xx-libs-340.107-2.el7_6.elrepo.i686.rpm package.
> >
> >Thinking about it, I'm not sure these packages are going to work
> >as the 340 series NVIDIA driver predates the conversion to GLVND
> >(support was added in version 361), see here:
> >
> >https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/915640/multiple-glx-client-libraries-in-the-nvidia-linux-driver-installer-package/
> >
> >
> >but I have no way to test them so I'll leave that to you.
> >
> >Phil
> >
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> Phil,
> I tried to install this and ran into a conflict
> 
> --> Processing Conflict:
> nvidia-x11-drv-340xx-340.107-2.el7_6.elrepo.x86_64 conflicts ocl-icd
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: nvidia-x11-drv-340xx conflicts with ocl-icd-2.2.12-1.el7.x86_64
> 
> I removed ocl-icd and installed the package, but needless to say I
> can't get ocl-icd to install which means that I cant install video
> players, vlc smplayer mplayer, or  ffmpeg-libs.

I asked the same question recently and Phil informed me that the
ocl-icd now comes in one of the nvidia  packages, so you no longer
need the one from epel.


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