[elrepo] kmod-nvidia on CentOS 8 Stream

[Phil Perry]

On 11/07/2020 15:51, ng0177 at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi, I used "sudo yum install kmod-nvidia" to install the nvidia driver 
> on CentOS 8 Stream but it is not active albeit installed. Any ideas? 
> Appreciate your help, Thomas
> 
> Name         : kmod-nvidia
> Version      : 450.57
> Release      : 1.el8_2.elrepo
> Architecture : x86_64
> Size         : 30 M
> Source       : kmod-nvidia-450.57-1.el8_2.elrepo.nosrc.rpm
> Repository   : @System
>  From repo    : elrepo
> Summary      : NVIDIA OpenGL kernel driver module
> URL          : http://www.nvidia.com/
> License      : Proprietary
> Description  : This package provides the proprietary NVIDIA OpenGL 
> kernel driver module.
>               : It is built to depend upon the specific ABI provided by 
> a range of releases
>               : of the same variant of the Linux kernel and not on any 
> one specific build.
> 
> 

Hi,

ELRepo kmod packages do not support CentOS Stream kernels as these are 
essentially beta kernels for the next RHEL release and may not have the 
stable kernel ABI that kmod packages depend upon.

You can see if your kernel is supported by running the following command 
to see if the nvidia modules are linked against your kernel:

$ find /lib/modules -name nvidia\*

I suspect they are not.

Regards,

Phil