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

[Phil Perry]

On 07/04/15 08:25, Farkas Levente wrote:
> 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.
> 

Looks like the problem is your end:

[root at rhel7 ~]# yum list kmod-nvidia
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, product-id, subscription-manager
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * elrepo: ftp.nluug.nl
Available Packages
kmod-nvidia.x86_64                  346.47-2.el7.elrepo
  elrepo
[root at rhel7 ~]#