[elrepo] [Non-DoD Source] Re: 390.x nvidia driver packages on RHEL 7.5 (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Phil Perry]

Thanks for the feedback Ray.

To expand, a large number of elrepo kmod packages need rebuilding for 
RHEL 7.5 due to kABI changes. We are currently working our way through 
that task and releasing them to the testing repository as they get rebuilt.

However, because the rebuilt packages are not backward compatible with 
RHEL 7.4 kernels, we've kept them in the testing repository at present 
until most users are updating to 7.5 (the majority of our users are 
probably CentOS users who are still awaiting the release of 7.5).

Regards,

Phil

On 19/04/18 13:02, Shaw, Ray V CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) wrote:
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> Thank you; that appears to work.  I'll keep the testing repo in mind for the future.
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> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 6:28 AM, Shaw, Ray V CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) <ray.v.shaw.civ at mail.mil < Caution-mailto:ray.v.shaw.civ at mail.mil > > wrote:
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> 	With the recent release of RHEL 7.5, we've been seeing issues where the latest kernel doesn't appear to be compatible with the latest driver build (390.48-1.el7_4) [line breaks added for readability]; the modules weren't carried forward, so I tried to do some debugging:
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> 	Has anyone else experience this issue, or am I doing something wrong?  I would try rebuilding the driver packages myself, but in the past when I've done that I seem to not be building them correctly, as they only like to work on the kernel I build them on and not subsequent ones (whereas the binaries distributed by this project do typically continue to work).
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> Give the kmod-nvidia package in the elrepo-testing repo a try:
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>   Caution-https://elrepo.org/linux/testing/ < Caution-https://elrepo.org/linux/testing/ >
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> I also encountered this problem, and this updated package was built to address it.
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