[elrepo] kmod-nvidia on CentOS 8 Stream

[ng0177 at gmail.com]

I did a fresh install of CentOS 8.2 Linux to
kernel 4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64 (identical RHEL 8.2) but ended up
w/ llvmpipe
(LLVM 9.0.0, 128 bits). Any help is appreciated! Thanks, Thomas

[user at localhost ~]$ find /lib/modules -name nvidia\*

/lib/modules/4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64/extra/nvidia

/lib/modules/4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia-drm.ko

/lib/modules/4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia-modeset.ko

/lib/modules/4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia-uvm.ko

/lib/modules/4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko

/lib/modules/4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64/weak-updates/nvidia

/lib/modules/4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64/weak-updates/nvidia/nvidia-drm.ko

/lib/modules/4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64/weak-updates/nvidia/nvidia-modeset.ko

/lib/modules/4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64/weak-updates/nvidia/nvidia-uvm.ko

/lib/modules/4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64/weak-updates/nvidia/nvidia.ko


On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 5:18 PM Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:

> 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
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