[elrepo] Nvidia drivers vs EL 7.3 vs Folding At Home

[Fred Smith]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 11:08:44AM +0000, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 17/12/16 01:22, Fred Smith wrote:
> >
> >Hi all!
> >
> >I stupidly updated my Centos box to Centos 7.3, having forgotten that
> >the Folding At Home client is effectively broken with the 375.20
> >nvidia drivers.
> >
> >As has been posted on this emial list, the older versions of the
> >nvidia bits aren't compatible with the kernel in EL7.3.
> >
> >So, is there a way I can go back to an earlier driver? Can you do a
> >build of the previous driver against 7.3?
> >
> >if not, would it work if I installed the blob that Nvidia offers
> >for that older driver?
> >
> >thanks for any help you can give!
> >
> >Fred
> >
> >
> 
> Hi Fred,
> 
> Is this a known issue that is going to be fixed (by nvidia)? I've
> just released updated 375.26 drivers that fix a number of bugs -
> maybe they fix the issue?

Tried that one, still broken.

> 
> The last 367.57 release was rebuilt against the RHEL7.3 kernel - the
> package you want in kmod-nvidia-367.57-2
> 
> (note the -2)
> 
> So try the following:
> 
> yum erase kmod-nvidia nvidia-x11-drv
> yum install kmod-nvidia-367.57-2.el7.elrepo.x86_64
> 
> and then reboot to your EL7.3 kernel
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Phil

thanks Phil, I'll go get it and will post here the result.

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