CentOS - May 2015 - VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

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

Akemi Yagi wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks, Akemi, that's really useful, and I'd never heard of it. I
suppose
that as it gets updated, it'll tell me the most current legacy to use (in
my case, the 310.40  worked, but the 340.58 did not... and that was trial
and error.

      mark

> Thanks, Akemi, that's really useful, and I'd never heard of it. I
suppose
> that as it gets updated, it'll tell me the most current legacy to use
(in
> my case, the 310.40  worked, but the 340.58 did not... and that was trial
> and error.
 It's all in the README that comes with the driver ... once upon a time,
 I wrote a script to extract driver info for the installed card (not on
 CentOS), but nvidia-detect is arguably better.