On 4/29/21 9:17 AM, Joshua Kramer wrote: > @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. well I have a Dell Precision M6800/M6700 with NVIDIA Corporation GK104GLM [Quadro K3100M] (rev a1) cards (but will try again later, I probably forgot to disable nouveau) > > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos