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. > > 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. I was able to build/compile the drivers with NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-460.73.01.run on 4.18.0-240.22.1.el8_3.x86_64, it gave me a warning about pkcfg, but no other warnings/errors and seem to install, however, after booting it still didn't use that driver, but the nouveau one > > 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. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos