[elrepo] nVidia issue on CentOS 7

[Mason Loring Bliss]

On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 12:44:02AM -0400, Williams, Roy wrote:

> I'm experiencing the same issues on some a variety of systems. We're
> running HP Workstation Z1s with "NVIDIA® Quadro® K3100M" cards and they
> seem to be problem children as well exhibiting similar problems.

Those seems to be UEFI, and I found one reference to that here:

    http://linuxsysconfig.com/2014/09/nvidia-drivers-on-centos-7/

Another approach seems to be nuking the Nouveau package entirely:

    http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/how-to-install-nvidia-driver-from-elrepo-for-nvidia-geforce-gtx645-in-rhel-7-1-a-4175540100/

This is what I'm going to try next.


On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 12:22:34PM +0200, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:

> Not sure if it can help, but I have a GTX 660 here working fine with the
> elrepo-provided nvidia driver, although it's running centos 6.

Hm. I'd be entirely willing to believe that systemd is doing the wrong thing,
if this is working for you. I have a work laptop that needed legacy nVidia
drivers, and I used the straight nVidia installer since I was using
kernel-ml. It worked fine, but this was also CentOS 6.

The hardware itself is fine. I'm using nVidia 346.47 under FreeBSD on the
hardware in question right now, and last night's reinstall onto my alternate
disks replaced Slackware, also running 352.41.

I guess I'll try nuking Nouveau entirely, and if that doesn't work I'll maybe
try the nVidia installer straight. And if that fails, I've always wanted to
give Gentoo a spin. :P

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