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

[Farkas Levente]

On 04/02/2015 06:46 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
> 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.

it's tricky since the new kmod package in the directory but not in the
repo (ie yum update not working for me although az rpm -Uvh is...)
thanks anyway.

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  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"