[elrepo] nvidia K1 issue

[Steve Cleveland]

On 05/08/2018 11:11 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 08/05/18 23:04, Steve Cleveland wrote:
>> This is reviving an old thread, so I'm not sure if best to top-post, 
>> but I wanted there to be context to the question.
>>
>> At the time (pre el7.4), to support a K1 card, I just need to load 
>> the mainline kmod-nvidia package.  But in 7.4, that driver (367.57) 
>> does not work.
>>
>> I assume they have not provided a legacy 367 driver?  Would it be 
>> possible to build their last 367 release as the kmod-nvidia-367xx 
>> version?  And can it be available on 7.4 or are we past that window?
>>
>> We run these servers behind on updates (just upgrading to 7.4), but 
>> we do have several to support.
>>
>> Thanks as always,
>>
>>   - Steve
>>
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> There is a 367 legacy series driver 
> (kmod-nvidia-367xx-367.57-4.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm) in the testing 
> repository but unfortunately it is a non starter on el7.4 upwards as 
> el7.4 updated to Xorg 1.19.3 but the 367 series driver only supports 
> Xorg 1.18.
>
> So I will be removing that 367xx legacy driver from the repository.
>
> I think that is NVIDIA's way of telling us it's time to update those 
> devices if you want to stay current.
>
> Sorry,
>
> Phil

Thanks Phil.  Thanks for taking the time to dig into it.

  - Steve