[elrepo] nVidia issue on CentOS 7

[Williams, Roy]

Mason,

Our machines are running in legacy mode, in our environment as we cannot
deploy Linux with UEFI as it stands. We're using Satellite 6 to deploy to
physical machines so I don't think that's an issue.

Roy

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Mason Loring Bliss <mason at blisses.org>
wrote:

> 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
>
> --
>  Mason Loring Bliss         mason at blisses.org        http://blisses.org/
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