Felipe Westfields
2018-Feb-06 16:40 UTC
[CentOS] Issues with NVidia video driver and CentOS
I'm having issues with a quad video card on CentOS. We have several systems on CentOS 6.8 and CentOS 6.9. The installed hardware is: Video card - Nvidia NVS quadro 440 PC - Dell OptiPlex 9020 Whenever you update the kernel, it kills the graphical interface. The system appears to lock up and freeze during a reboot, but you can still get into it with SSH, or, if you're at the console, control-alt-F2 gets you to a command prompt. If you exclude the kernel update when applying yum update, it is usually fine. If the kernel update is applied, and you roll back the update, that sometimes gets you back into the graphical console, but more likely than not, it won't. Not sure where to go with this. Any suggestions? FW
I think that it is more about the card than the kernel. You may try to install different card to test. I would report that to Nvidia. You may also try how it works in CentOS 7. Time to move on? I also use 6.9 but in plain configuration. Mikhail Utin ________________________________ From: CentOS <centos-bounces at centos.org> on behalf of Felipe Westfields <felipe.westfields at gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 11:40 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Issues with NVidia video driver and CentOS I'm having issues with a quad video card on CentOS. We have several systems on CentOS 6.8 and CentOS 6.9. The installed hardware is: Video card - Nvidia NVS quadro 440 PC - Dell OptiPlex 9020 Whenever you update the kernel, it kills the graphical interface. The system appears to lock up and freeze during a reboot, but you can still get into it with SSH, or, if you're at the console, control-alt-F2 gets you to a command prompt. If you exclude the kernel update when applying yum update, it is usually fine. If the kernel update is applied, and you roll back the update, that sometimes gets you back into the graphical console, but more likely than not, it won't. Not sure where to go with this. Any suggestions? FW _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos CentOS Info Page<https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> lists.centos.org This is a General discussion list for all issues CentOS. Security updates are currently announced on this list once daily. This list is read and reply for anyone that ...
On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Felipe Westfields < felipe.westfields at gmail.com> wrote:> I'm having issues with a quad video card on CentOS. > > We have several systems on CentOS 6.8 and CentOS 6.9. The installed > hardware is: > > Video card - Nvidia NVS quadro 440 > PC - Dell OptiPlex 9020 > > Whenever you update the kernel, it kills the graphical interface. The > system appears to lock up and freeze during a reboot, but you can still get > into it with SSH, or, if you're at the console, control-alt-F2 gets you to > a command prompt. > > If you exclude the kernel update when applying yum update, it is usually > fine. If the kernel update is applied, and you roll back the update, that > sometimes gets you back into the graphical console, but more likely than > not, it won't. > > Not sure where to go with this. > > Any suggestions? > > FW > _______________________________________________ >Which version of the driver? How did you install it? If you're not already using it, I heartily recommend using the ELRepo repository, http://elrepo.org/tiki/. We have several dozen CO 6.9 machines with various Nvidia cards and except for a recent version that had an issue with DVI connections (not the repository's fault), we haven't had any problems. -- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu
Felipe Westfields
2018-Feb-06 19:44 UTC
[CentOS] Issues with NVidia video driver and CentOS
We do have the elrepo drivers installed. Maybe part of the problem is also that we're using an IOgear KVM switch? On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 11:58 AM, Phelps, Matthew <mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Felipe Westfields < > felipe.westfields at gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm having issues with a quad video card on CentOS. > > > > We have several systems on CentOS 6.8 and CentOS 6.9. The installed > > hardware is: > > > > Video card - Nvidia NVS quadro 440 > > PC - Dell OptiPlex 9020 > > > > Whenever you update the kernel, it kills the graphical interface. The > > system appears to lock up and freeze during a reboot, but you can still > get > > into it with SSH, or, if you're at the console, control-alt-F2 gets you > to > > a command prompt. > > > > If you exclude the kernel update when applying yum update, it is usually > > fine. If the kernel update is applied, and you roll back the update, that > > sometimes gets you back into the graphical console, but more likely than > > not, it won't. > > > > Not sure where to go with this. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > FW > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Which version of the driver? How did you install it? > > If you're not already using it, I heartily recommend using the ELRepo > repository, http://elrepo.org/tiki/. We have several dozen CO 6.9 machines > with various Nvidia cards and except for a recent version that had an issue > with DVI connections (not the repository's fault), we haven't had any > problems. > > -- > Matt Phelps > System Administrator, Computation Facility > Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics > mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >