On Wed, May 6, 2015 9:28 am, lhecking at users.sourceforge.net wrote:> >> And I, personally, would want an email from aforesaid manager telling me >> not to do any upgrades, which I would print out in several copies and >> put >> in a secure place.... >> <snip> > > You do not understand the situation I presented. This is about avoiding > a situation where in a highly complex envirnoment, due to a quirk in one > of the dozens of tools involved in designing your product, the product > suddenly changes because libc was updated to a newer rev. So you keep > your > design environment static - all parts of it. We're talking business > process > here, not some stand-alone, uninformed PHB decision. >I can understand you - on a smaller scale... <rant> I have a couple of boxes with NVIDIA cards and fancy screen setup. I have to use NVIDIA proprietary driver, open source driver does not support configuration. Darn Nvidia never released enough information about their chip's internals for open source developers to be able to write more versatile driver. I hate Nvidia for that. I love their competitor ATI: not only open source driver is way better, their proprietary drivers are consistently less buggy, and the same can be said about chips, at least I've never seen artifacts on ATI cards, I've seen artifacts on NVIDIA based cards a few times. Now, back to my boxes. NVIDIA declared these fancy cards obsolete (the are only about 6 years old, and hardware still does appropriate job for what we need). There is no proprietary NVIDIA driver which you can install with latest kernels (latest speaking CentOS 6 kernels). You know you have to compile kernel interface for their binary driver. No way: no updated binary driver for these my obsoleted by NVIDIA cards. So, NVIDIA locked me on these boxes to older kernel. So, how would you like this company after that!? </rant> Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Valeri Galtsev wrote:> > <rant> > > I have a couple of boxes with NVIDIA cards and fancy screen setup. I have > to use NVIDIA proprietary driver, open source driver does not support > configuration. Darn Nvidia never released enough information about their<snip>> Now, back to my boxes. NVIDIA declared these fancy cards obsolete (the are > only about 6 years old, and hardware still does appropriate job for what > we need). There is no proprietary NVIDIA driver which you can install with > latest kernels (latest speaking CentOS 6 kernels). You know you have to > compile kernel interface for their binary driver. No way: no updated > binary driver for these my obsoleted by NVIDIA cards. So, NVIDIA locked me > on these boxes to older kernel.<snip>> </rant>There is a proprietary driver package that you can build that will support them. I have a Guadro 4000 aka GL100GL on my workstation, and am running 6.6 current, and NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.40.run, which you can still d/l from NVida's site, for it (I need the proprietary for two screens). Hope that helps. mark
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 8:20 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:> Valeri Galtsev wrote:>> Now, back to my boxes. NVIDIA declared these fancy cards obsolete (the are >> only about 6 years old, and hardware still does appropriate job for what >> we need). There is no proprietary NVIDIA driver which you can install with >> latest kernels (latest speaking CentOS 6 kernels). You know you have to >> compile kernel interface for their binary driver. No way: no updated >> binary driver for these my obsoleted by NVIDIA cards. So, NVIDIA locked me >> on these boxes to older kernel. > > There is a proprietary driver package that you can build that will support > them. I have a Guadro 4000 aka GL100GL on my workstation, and am running > 6.6 current, and NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.40.run, which you can still d/l > from NVida's site, for it (I need the proprietary for two screens).I highly recommend that you install nvidia-detect [1] from ELRepo and run it. Akemi [1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/nvidia-detect
On Wed, May 6, 2015 10:20 am, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> <rant> >> >> I have a couple of boxes with NVIDIA cards and fancy screen setup. I >> have >> to use NVIDIA proprietary driver, open source driver does not support >> configuration. Darn Nvidia never released enough information about their > <snip> >> Now, back to my boxes. NVIDIA declared these fancy cards obsolete (the >> are >> only about 6 years old, and hardware still does appropriate job for what >> we need). There is no proprietary NVIDIA driver which you can install >> with >> latest kernels (latest speaking CentOS 6 kernels). You know you have to >> compile kernel interface for their binary driver. No way: no updated >> binary driver for these my obsoleted by NVIDIA cards. So, NVIDIA locked >> me >> on these boxes to older kernel. > <snip> >> </rant> > > There is a proprietary driver package that you can build that will support > them. I have a Guadro 4000 aka GL100GL on my workstation, and am running > 6.6 current, and NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.40.run, which you can still d/l > from NVida's site, for it (I need the proprietary for two screens). > > Hope that helps. > > markThanks Mark! Will try. As someone said: you don't need to know everything. You just need to know right person to ask ;-) Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++