On 4/7/21 6:44 PM, R C wrote:> Hello, > > > I am running Centos/RHEL 8 on a Dell precision M6800/6700 with a: NVIDIA > Corporation GK104GLM [Quadro K3100M] > > > Is there a driver for that one?? or am I stuck with nouveaux ? >The kernel included in CentOS-8 (the last time I tested it), did not properly build and run the proprietary NVIDIA drivers .. neither did the same kernel in RHEL. What I did was shift my workstation install to the elrepo kernel-ml kernels (you might want kernel-lt .. it is latest long term kernel). I can then build the latest NVIDIA drivers for my graphics card and use them. http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-lt I have no issues using the elrepo kernels .. those guys and gals are outstanding. All the stuff they do is great. My card is a 1080ti .. so I have not tried building for Quadro 3100M .. but if NVIDIA has a linux driver for that, then it should build using the elrepo kernels. Phil Perry can tell us if the NVIDIA drivers they carry actually now work for EL8 .. i stopped trying it after I switched kernels as they don't carry drivers on elrepo for the kernel-ml or kernel-lt and I just rebuild the official NVIDIA drivers manually after every kernel update. Thanks, Johnny Hughes
On 4/9/21 9:24 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:> On 4/7/21 6:44 PM, R C wrote: >> Hello, >> >> >> I am running Centos/RHEL 8 on a Dell precision M6800/6700 with a: NVIDIA >> Corporation GK104GLM [Quadro K3100M] >> >> >> Is there a driver for that one?? or am I stuck with nouveaux ? >> > The kernel included in CentOS-8 (the last time I tested it), did not > properly build and run the proprietary NVIDIA drivers .. neither did the > same kernel in RHEL.I found out, trying to install the driver, the NVIDIA installer was complaining.? (I was pointed to where the latest driver for it was, by Nvidia (which surprised me a bit that they were still maintaining it actually, at least it's the impression I have)> > What I did was shift my workstation install to the elrepo kernel-ml > kernels (you might want kernel-lt .. it is latest long term kernel). I > can then build the latest NVIDIA drivers for my graphics card and use them. > > http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml > http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-lt > > I have no issues using the elrepo kernels .. those guys and gals are > outstanding. All the stuff they do is great. > > My card is a 1080ti .. so I have not tried building for Quadro 3100M .. > but if NVIDIA has a linux driver for that, then it should build using > the elrepo kernels. > > Phil Perry can tell us if the NVIDIA drivers they carry actually now > work for EL8 .. i stopped trying it after I switched kernels as they > don't carry drivers on elrepo for the kernel-ml or kernel-lt and I just > rebuild the official NVIDIA drivers manually after every kernel update.That was sort of my plan, to see and wait if things would work with later kernels. Fr now my desktop seems to be working ok-ish. When my desktop is up for over 10-12 hrs, there seem to be some flickering, windows that 'switch' focus etc, and at times the gnome desktop flat out crashes (the machine keeps running, but no gnome.> > Thanks,thank you!? for letting me know. Ron> Johnny Hughes > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 4/9/21 9:24 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:> On 4/7/21 6:44 PM, R C wrote: >> Hello, >> >> >> I am running Centos/RHEL 8 on a Dell precision M6800/6700 with a: NVIDIA >> Corporation GK104GLM [Quadro K3100M] >> >> >> Is there a driver for that one?? or am I stuck with nouveaux ? >> > The kernel included in CentOS-8 (the last time I tested it), did not > properly build and run the proprietary NVIDIA drivers .. neither did the > same kernel in RHEL. > > What I did was shift my workstation install to the elrepo kernel-ml > kernels (you might want kernel-lt .. it is latest long term kernel). I > can then build the latest NVIDIA drivers for my graphics card and use them. > > http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml > http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-lt > > I have no issues using the elrepo kernels .. those guys and gals are > outstanding. All the stuff they do is great. > > My card is a 1080ti .. so I have not tried building for Quadro 3100M .. > but if NVIDIA has a linux driver for that, then it should build using > the elrepo kernels.I was able to build/compile the drivers with NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-460.73.01.run on 4.18.0-240.22.1.el8_3.x86_64, it gave me a warning about pkcfg, but no other warnings/errors and seem to install, however, after booting it still didn't use that driver, but the nouveau one> > Phil Perry can tell us if the NVIDIA drivers they carry actually now > work for EL8 .. i stopped trying it after I switched kernels as they > don't carry drivers on elrepo for the kernel-ml or kernel-lt and I just > rebuild the official NVIDIA drivers manually after every kernel update. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 29/4/21 11:55 pm, R C wrote:> ... > I was able to build/compile the drivers with > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-460.73.01.run on 4.18.0-240.22.1.el8_3.x86_64, it > gave me a warning about pkcfg, but no other warnings/errors and seem > to install, however, after booting it still didn't use that driver, > but the nouveau one > ...Not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison as I'm on Ubuntu, but just to show that Nvidia still supports this card (I'm on the same laptop - m6700 - though lower powered GPU). I have enabled Optimus in the BIOS and also installed bumblee for Optimus [1] support. $ ubuntu-drivers devices == /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 == modalias : pci:v000010DEd000011BEsv00001028sd0000153Fbc03sc00i00 vendor : NVIDIA Corporation model : GK104GLM [Quadro K3000M] driver : nvidia-driver-390 - distro non-free recommended driver : nvidia-340 - distro non-free driver : nvidia-driver-418-server - distro non-free driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin $ dpkg -l nvidia* *bee* | awk '/^(Des|\| Sta!|\||\+)/{print}; /^ii/{print}' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-================================-========================-============-=============================================== ii bumblebee 3.2.1-22 amd64 NVIDIA Optimus support for Linux ii nvidia-compute-utils-390 390.141-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA compute utilities ii nvidia-dkms-390 390.141-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA DKMS package ii nvidia-driver-390 390.141-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA driver metapackage ii nvidia-kernel-common-390 390.141-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 Shared files used with the kernel module ii nvidia-kernel-source-390 390.141-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA kernel source package ii nvidia-prime 0.8.15.3~0.20.04.1 all Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime ii nvidia-settings 440.82-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver ii nvidia-utils-390 390.141-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA driver support binaries [1]: