[CentOS] [Slightly OT] video driver for NVIDIA Quadro

Sat May 1 05:57:18 UTC 2021
Anthony K <akcentos at anroet.com>

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/