@Johnny Hughes- what version of the nVidia drivers did you have problems with, and what were the problems? I'm just curious. I have a Latitude E7450 with an M840 chipset and I've never had problems compiling or getting them to work under stock CentOS 8 kernels. On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 12:54 PM Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > On 4/9/21 11:43 AM, Phil Perry wrote: > > On 09/04/2021 16:40, R C wrote: > >> > >> On 4/9/21 9:24 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >>> On 4/7/21 6:44 PM, R C wrote: > >>>> Hello, > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> I am running Centos/RHEL 8 on a Dell precision M6800/6700 with a: > >>>> NVIDIA > >>>> Corporation GK104GLM [Quadro K3100M] > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Is there a driver for that one? or am I stuck with nouveaux ? > >>>> > >>> The kernel included in CentOS-8 (the last time I tested it), did not > >>> properly build and run the proprietary NVIDIA drivers .. neither did > the > >>> same kernel in RHEL. > >> > >> I found out, trying to install the driver, the NVIDIA installer was > >> complaining. (I was pointed to where the latest driver for it was, by > >> Nvidia (which surprised me a bit that they were still maintaining it > >> actually, at least it's the impression I have) > >> > > > > The GK104GLM [Quadro K3100M] _should_ be supported by the latest NVIDIA > > driver (currently v460.67) on el8. I say _should_ as I'm not 100% sure. > > I'm assuming your device is as below (check the device IDs with 'pci > -nn'): > > > > [10de:11b6] NVIDIA Corporation GK104GLM [Quadro K3100M] > > > > That device was previously listed as supported: > > > > > https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/410.66/README/supportedchips.html > > > > > > but I can't find it listed on the currently supported chipset's page, > > hence my doubt: > > > > > https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/460.67/README/supportedchips.html > > > > > > I'd be interested to know which driver version NVIDIA pointed you > towards? > > > >>> > >>> What I did was shift my workstation install to the elrepo kernel-ml > >>> kernels (you might want kernel-lt .. it is latest long term kernel). I > >>> can then build the latest NVIDIA drivers for my graphics card and use > >>> them. > >>> > >>> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml > >>> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-lt > >>> > >>> I have no issues using the elrepo kernels .. those guys and gals are > >>> outstanding. All the stuff they do is great. > >>> > >>> My card is a 1080ti .. so I have not tried building for Quadro 3100M .. > >>> but if NVIDIA has a linux driver for that, then it should build using > >>> the elrepo kernels. > >>> > >>> Phil Perry can tell us if the NVIDIA drivers they carry actually now > >>> work for EL8 .. i stopped trying it after I switched kernels as they > >>> don't carry drivers on elrepo for the kernel-ml or kernel-lt and I just > >>> rebuild the official NVIDIA drivers manually after every kernel update. > >> > >> That was sort of my plan, to see and wait if things would work with > >> later kernels. Fr now my desktop seems to be working ok-ish. When my > >> desktop is up for over 10-12 hrs, there seem to be some flickering, > >> windows that 'switch' focus etc, and at times the gnome desktop flat > >> out crashes (the machine keeps running, but no gnome. > >> > > > > Assuming it is supported by the latest v460.67 driver, and the above > > omission is a mistake, ELRepo have a driver (kmod-nvidia) which should > > work with the el8 distro kernel. > > > > As Johnny says above, if you use a different kernel, such as those from > > elrepo, you will need to install the driver directly from NVIDIA. > > > > Thanks Phil. > > I MIGHT try shifting back to the main CentOS kernel and see if they have > fixed the issue I was having loading NVIDIA drivers. If I ever have any > spare time on my hands :) > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >