On 1/5/21 3:53 pm, Anthony K wrote:
> On 29/4/21 11:55 pm, R C wrote:
>> ...
>> 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
>> ...
Dang it - formatting destroyed again... Thunderbird - The bane of email
on Linux...
One more attempt:
Not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison as I'm on Ubuntu, but just to
show that Nvidia still supports this card (I'm on the same laptop -
m6700 - though lower powered GPU).
I have enabled Optimus in the BIOS and also installed bumblee for
Optimus [1] support.
$ ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd000011BEsv00001028sd0000153Fbc03sc00i00
vendor : NVIDIA Corporation
model : GK104GLM [Quadro K3000M]
driver : nvidia-driver-390 - distro non-free recommended
driver : nvidia-340 - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-418-server - distro non-free
driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin
$ dpkg -l nvidia* *bee*| awk '/^(Des|\| Sta!|\||\+)/{print}; /^ii/{print}'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-================================-========================-============-===============================================
ii bumblebee 3.2.1-22 amd64 NVIDIA
Optimus support for Linux
ii nvidia-compute-utils-390 390.141-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
amd64 NVIDIA compute utilities
ii nvidia-dkms-390 390.141-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
amd64 NVIDIA DKMS package
ii nvidia-driver-390 390.141-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
amd64 NVIDIA driver metapackage
ii nvidia-kernel-common-390 390.141-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
amd64 Shared files used with the kernel module
ii nvidia-kernel-source-390 390.141-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
amd64 NVIDIA kernel source package
ii nvidia-prime 0.8.15.3~0.20.04.1 all
Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii nvidia-settings 440.82-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii nvidia-utils-390 390.141-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
amd64 NVIDIA driver support binaries
[1]:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/linux-driver-software-support-for-m6700.696804/