[elrepo] nvidia K1 issue

[Phil Perry]

On 25/07/17 00:31, Steve Cleveland wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/24/2017 12:27 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
>> On 24/07/17 19:12, Steve Cleveland wrote:
>>> I believe my issue is the same as this:
>>>
>>> https://elrepo.org/bugs/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=724
>>>
>>> But I can't see how to reopen it or comment on it.  I have a K1 card. 
>>> nvidia-detect is telling me I need kmod-nvidia-367xx, which doesn't 
>>> appear to exist.  The difference is the K1 card does not appear to be 
>>> supported in the 375.66 driver like the K2 card.
>>>
>>> # rpm -q nvidia-detect
>>> nvidia-detect-375.66-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
>>>
>>> # nvidia-detect -v
>>> Probing for supported NVIDIA devices...
>>> [102b:0534] Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. G200eR2
>>> [10de:0ff2] NVIDIA Corporation GK107GL [GRID K1]
>>> This device requires the legacy 367.xx NVIDIA driver kmod-nvidia-367xx
>>> [10de:0ff2] NVIDIA Corporation GK107GL [GRID K1]
>>> This device requires the legacy 367.xx NVIDIA driver kmod-nvidia-367xx
>>> [10de:0ff2] NVIDIA Corporation GK107GL [GRID K1]
>>> This device requires the legacy 367.xx NVIDIA driver kmod-nvidia-367xx
>>> [10de:0ff2] NVIDIA Corporation GK107GL [GRID K1]
>>> This device requires the legacy 367.xx NVIDIA driver kmod-nvidia-367xx
>>>
>>> Has there been a 367.xx legacy release from nvidia?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>   - Steve
>>>
>>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> I believe nvidia dropped support for your GRID K1 card in the latest 
>> 375.xx series driver, so you need to stay on the last 367.xx series 
>> driver.
>>
>> The last 367.xx series driver released by nvidia was 367.57.
>>
>> Apparently nvidia will support your card going forward with legacy 
>> releases to the 367 series, but as of yet they have not released any 
>> updates. So the most recent (current) 367 series driver is the 367.57 
>> release. When nvidia release a legacy update we will release that as 
>> kmod-nvidia-367xx legacy driver, or at least that was the plan.
>>
>> I updated nvidia-detect to report the 367.xx series driver as the 
>> correct driver for those cards anticipating nvidia would make a legacy 
>> release imminently but they haven't. Sorry for the confusion that has 
>> caused.
>>
>> For now, you just need to install and stick with the last 367.57 
>> driver release.
>>
>> Assuming you have yum-plugin-nvidia installed, the latest 375 series 
>> driver should be blacklisted on your system and not available to 
>> install with yum as it does not support your hardware, so simply doing:
>>
>> yum install kmod-nvidia
>>
>> should pull in the latest 367.57 driver automatically for you. In 
>> other words, by the magic of yum-plugin-nvidia, yum _should_ just do 
>> the right thing for you (please tell me this works for you!). And 
>> because future (version > 367) releases are blacklisted by yum, yum 
>> should never offer you updated driver versions that do not support 
>> your hardware.
> 
> I have a local mirror, and it had some 375.xx versions before the latest 
> that were causing issues.  I removed them and it's successfully 
> installing the 367.57-3 version.
> 

Brilliant!

Yes, the blacklist for K1/K2 devices no longer supported were added to 
later 375.xx series releases and earlier releases were removed from the 
repository for exactly this reason.

Older versions are always available in the archive.