[elrepo] Announcement: EL7 updated kmod-nvidia package for RHEL7.4

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 12:29 AM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 11:39 PM, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:
>
>> On 09/08/17 01:34, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>>
>> ​My test result: Got exactly the same stack trace as what Pat reported.
>>> This is a freshly installed RHEL 7.4 system. ​
>>> ​'​
>>> nvidia-detect -v
>>> ​' shows:
>>>
>>> ​[10de:0427] NVIDIA Corporation G86M [GeForce 8400M GS]
>>> This device requires the legacy 340.xx NVIDIA driver kmod-nvidia-340xx
>>>
>>> I'm now moving 'kmod-nvidia-340xx-340.102-3.el7_4' to the
>>> elrepo-testing repo (instead of removing) in case others want to take a
>>> look at it.
>>>
>>> Akem
>>> ​i​
>>>
>>
>
>> Thanks for the testing Akemi. At least we've confirmed it's our nvidia
>> package that's at fault Pat, rather than your kernel :-)
>>
>> ​I tried the nvidia installer (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.102.run) and it
> failed with the following error:
> ​
> ​"​
> ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko'.  This happens most
> frequently when this kernel module was built against the wrong or
> improperly configured kernel sources, with a version of gcc that differs
> from the one used to build the target kernel, or if a driver such as
> rivafb, nvidiafb, or nouveau is present and prevents the NVIDIA kernel
> module from obtaining ownership of the NVIDIA graphics device(s), or no
> NVIDIA GPU installed in this system is supported by this NVIDIA Linux
> graphics driver release.
> ​"​
>
​
Good news. A patch that fixes the current issue has been posted here:
​

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1021871/304-135-fails-to-build-load-on-rhel-7-4-kernel-3-10-0-693/

​Using the patch I was able to run Nvidia's installer
(NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.102.run) successfully. Now this patch needs to be
added to ELRepo's kmod package.​

Akemi
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