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

[Phil Perry]

On 02/04/15 16:46, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> 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


Yes, you just need to 'yum update kmod-nvidia' to the latest release.