[elrepo] Announcement: EL7 Updated NVIDIA drivers for RHEL 7.1

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Farkas Levente <lfarkas at lfarkas.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> it strange since it's not working for me. ie:
> installed pacakges:
> kernel-3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64
> kernel-3.10.0-229.1.2.el7.x86_64
> nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-346.47-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
> kmod-nvidia-346.47-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
> nvidia-detect-346.47-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
> nvidia-x11-drv-346.47-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
>
> if i boot with the old 3.10.0-123.20.1 kernel then everything is working. if
> i boot with the new latest 7.1 kernel-3.10.0-229.1.2 X don't even start.
> which is the opposite then what i expect.
> in xorg's log:
> [   196.943] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module.
> Please see the
> [   196.943] (EE) NVIDIA:     system's kernel log for additional error
> messages and
> [   196.943] (EE) NVIDIA:     consult the NVIDIA README for details.
> [   196.943] (EE) No devices detected.
> but i can't see anything in the system log.
> anybody has any tipp?

You need kmod-nvidia-346.47-2.el7 for EL 7.1 as stated in the announcement.

Akemi