Hi,
I know Nvidia still supports it, their helpdesk person told me. I
don't know what optimus is, but I have 2 M6800 laptops and a M6700
SI'll see if I can find that. Someone else told me that that
RHEL/Centos 8 just has a lot less drivers included (I don't know if that
is true though)
On 4/30/21 11:53 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
>> ...
>
> 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]:
>
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