CentOS - Feb 2018 - 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
>

I'm trying to reinstall the elrepo drivers.
Removed the existing elrepo drivers
Downloaded the following elrepo drivers:

nvidia-x11-drv-304xx-304.135-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
kmod-nvidia-304xx-304.135-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
nvidia-x11-drv-304xx-32bit-304.135-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

that first one appears to have a dependency on "NVidia-x11-drv-304xx
304.135" and I can't find that package anywhere - I've checked
CentOS base,
the EPEL repositories, and the elrepo repositories, RPMfind.

Do you know where I can find it?

Thanks,

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 2:44 PM, Felipe Westfields <
felipe.westfields at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>
>

On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Felipe Westfields wrote:
> I'm trying to reinstall the elrepo drivers.
> Removed the existing elrepo drivers
> Downloaded the following elrepo drivers:
>
> nvidia-x11-drv-304xx-304.135-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> kmod-nvidia-304xx-304.135-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> nvidia-x11-drv-304xx-32bit-304.135-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>
> that first one appears to have a dependency on "NVidia-x11-drv-304xx
> 304.135" and I can't find that package anywhere - I've checked
CentOS base,
> the EPEL repositories, and the elrepo repositories, RPMfind.
>
> Do you know where I can find it?
Do you have something against yum?

jh