I have elrepo installed. rpm -qa | grep elrepo gives elrepo-release-7.0.3.el7.elrepo.noarch nvidia detect (which installed) tells me kmod-nvidia-340xx when I do yum install kmod-nvidia-340xx it is saying no package kmod-nvidia-340xx available ? What did I miss? Thanks, Jerry
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 01:55:10PM -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:> I have elrepo installed. rpm -qa | grep elrepo gives > elrepo-release-7.0.3.el7.elrepo.noarch > > nvidia detect (which installed) tells me kmod-nvidia-340xx > > when I do yum install kmod-nvidia-340xx it is saying no package > kmod-nvidia-340xx available ? > > What did I miss? Thanks,I'd try "yum install kmod-nvidia". ISTR that works. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- The Lord is like a strong tower. Those who do what is right can run to him for safety. --------------------------- Proverbs 18:10 (niv) -----------------------------
> 'd try "yum install kmod-nvidia". ISTR that works.Thanks that seems to be working. However there were differnet "Versions" to install based on what nvidia-detect says. Not 1 driver for all. So now its installing the 410.93 package... I'm not sure that supports the chipset I have. Which is Gt218 ION Jerry> >
As I thought - the NVIDIA log is saying "WRONG" Driver silly - use the 340xx driver. Again - original question was "yum install kmod-nvidia-3400xx" says no package available for elrepo ??? Jerry
On 27/02/2019 18:55, Jerry Geis wrote:> I have elrepo installed. rpm -qa | grep elrepo gives > elrepo-release-7.0.3.el7.elrepo.noarch > > nvidia detect (which installed) tells me kmod-nvidia-340xx > > when I do yum install kmod-nvidia-340xx it is saying no package > kmod-nvidia-340xx available ? > > What did I miss? Thanks, > > JerryHi Jerry, I removed the kmod-nvidia-340xx legacy driver package from elrepo because it was not compatible with the new libglvnd packages in el7.6. In order for it to work, I'll need to update the package, and I just haven't found the time to get around to it yet. I was kinda hoping that since the 340xx legacy driver branch is old now, and support for it ends at the end of this year, we could get away with dropping it if no one was using it. So, until I get around to updating it, your choices are to use the native nouveau driver or use the NVIDIA installer from nvidia's website to install the driver. Is there any reason you can't use the native nouveau driver and have to use the nvidia driver? I can't imagine 3D acceleration is of much concern to you given you're running 10 year old hardware that was entry level when it was first released. I'll see if I can find some time this weekend to fix the elrepo package and get it reinstated into the repository. Phil
Phil Perry wrote:> On 27/02/2019 18:55, Jerry Geis wrote: > >> I have elrepo installed. rpm -qa | grep elrepo gives >> elrepo-release-7.0.3.el7.elrepo.noarch >> >> nvidia detect (which installed) tells me kmod-nvidia-340xx >> >> when I do yum install kmod-nvidia-340xx it is saying no package >> kmod-nvidia-340xx available ? >> >> What did I miss? Thanks, >> >> >> Jerry >> > > Hi Jerry, > > > I removed the kmod-nvidia-340xx legacy driver package from elrepo > because it was not compatible with the new libglvnd packages in el7.6. > > In order for it to work, I'll need to update the package, and I just > haven't found the time to get around to it yet. I was kinda hoping that > since the 340xx legacy driver branch is old now, and support for it ends > at the end of this year, we could get away with dropping it if no one was > using it. > > So, until I get around to updating it, your choices are to use the > native nouveau driver or use the NVIDIA installer from nvidia's website to > install the driver. Is there any reason you can't use the native nouveau > driver and have to use the nvidia driver? I can't imagine 3D acceleration > is of much concern to you given you're running 10 year old hardware that > was entry level when it was first released. > > I'll see if I can find some time this weekend to fix the elrepo package > and get it reinstated into the repository. >Phil, thanks for your work. I just built a new-to-him workstation for a user, with a *much* newer NVidia card than his old: this one's from '12, instead of from '07.... (I work for a US federal contractor, and the civilian sector budgets...) Anyway, it needs the 390, and given that it looks like support's not that long, I made the decision to install the proprietary. kmod-nvidia's great... but, y'know. mark
On 2/27/19 12:55 PM, Jerry Geis wrote:> I have elrepo installed. rpm -qa | grep elrepo gives > elrepo-release-7.0.3.el7.elrepo.noarch > > nvidia detect (which installed) tells me kmod-nvidia-340xx > > when I do yum install kmod-nvidia-340xx it is saying no package > kmod-nvidia-340xx available ? > > What did I miss?OK .. So if you need to have the 32-bit driver as well as the 64-bit one (for things like steam gaming .. who doesn't like games :D) ... I found this link on the nvidia site: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/latest.txt Basically .. that will tell you the last 64 bit driver you can build which will install 32-bit drivers as well. Then you can grab those and install them manually. Phil Perry (of elrepo) might be able to tell us if any of the elrepo drivers also have 32bit .. I am not sure. I do know that the latest nvidia drivers from nvidia's site can use epel's dkms rpm to rebuild drivers for new kernels automatically. I do know that this driver tree is still getting updates from nvidia .. and the last one was from 2019-02-08 for 390.116. These drivers allow me to get fairly good steam gaming performance on Linux. I got my initial steam install from the 'nux-dextop' repo. And this is the link to the current latest driver with 32bit linux support: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/390.116/ Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20190320/0686bda9/attachment-0002.sig>
On 20/03/2019 18:08, Johnny Hughes wrote:> On 2/27/19 12:55 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: >> I have elrepo installed. rpm -qa | grep elrepo gives >> elrepo-release-7.0.3.el7.elrepo.noarch >> >> nvidia detect (which installed) tells me kmod-nvidia-340xx >> >> when I do yum install kmod-nvidia-340xx it is saying no package >> kmod-nvidia-340xx available ? >> >> What did I miss? > > OK .. So if you need to have the 32-bit driver as well as the 64-bit one > (for things like steam gaming .. who doesn't like games :D) ... I found > this link on the nvidia site: > > http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/latest.txt > > Basically .. that will tell you the last 64 bit driver you can build > which will install 32-bit drivers as well. > > Then you can grab those and install them manually. > > Phil Perry (of elrepo) might be able to tell us if any of the elrepo > drivers also have 32bit .. I am not sure. >The 390.xx series driver was the last nvidia driver release that supported a 32-bit OS install. Hence there are no new driver releases for el6 i386 architecture. Driver releases after 390.xx only support installation on 64-bit operating systems, but 32-bit library support is still available on systems where the user wants to run graphics 32-bit applications. Phil