[CentOS] video driver for NVIDIA Quadro

Thu Apr 29 15:17:09 UTC 2021
Joshua Kramer <joskra42.list at gmail.com>

@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 :)
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