Hi, so I went through the BIOS and found it under "switchable graphics". It was turned on, checked. What is it Optimus does, and, ... does it even matter/work in RHEL/Centos? (the other otption has to do with the docking station display ports. It can use it when in a docking station, which mine usually is. When I turned off Optimus, since it was on, to see if there is a difference, I had turn the Docking DP otion on else nothing would work. Also, I looked at some Centos 7 machines I still have, there is something there kmod-nvidia, however that is not in RHEL/Centos 8 anymore? (has that to do with the issues of compiling the kernel menioned way earlier in this thread?) I am trying to see if switching the state of Optimus, whatever it is, makes a difference in gnome crashing ... or not thanks, Ron On 5/1/21 5:50 AM, Mark Woolfson wrote: > Hi, > > The attached is for a project we did about 6 months ago. > Hope that this helps. > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: CentOS <centos-bounces at centos.org> On Behalf Of Anthony K > Sent: 01 May 2021 06:57 > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] video driver for NVIDIA Quadro > > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >