On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Yasha Karant <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/25/2015 11:44 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Yasha Karant <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I am guessing that the above Nvidia chip set is (fully) supported by the >>> proprietary Nvidia Linux driver: >> >> The easiest way to find the right driver version is to install >> nvidia-detect [1] from ELRepo and run it. For example: >> >> $ nvidia-detect -v >> Probing for supported NVIDIA devices... >> [10de:0fc1] NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GT 640] >> This device requires the current 346.47 NVIDIA driver kmod-nvidia >> >>> I have this working on my SL7 X86-64 workstation. The stock driver >>> (noveau) >>> needs to be fully disabled. >> >> If you use ELRepo's kmod-nvidia package [2], you do not need to do any >> of this manually. It will disable nouveau for you. Just set up ELRepo >> as Pat suggested and run 'yum install kmod-nvidia'. >> >> Akemi >> >> [1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/nvidia-detect >> [2] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia > > Nvidia routinely updates the proprietary Nvidia driver code. At each major > or minor production release of the Nvidia driver, does the above ELRepo RPM > get updated to the current Nvidia code? Is it maintained for the same Linux > environments that Nvidia supports, or for a superset of the Nvidia supported > environments? > > Yasha ELRepo's nvidia packages stay current with the updates released by Nvidia. There are 4 "legacy" versions in addition to the current kmod-nvidia: The kmod-nvidia-340xx driver supports GeForce 8xxx and 9xxx series GPUs, GT2xx and Quadro series The kmod-nvidia-304xx driver supports GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs The kmod-nvidia-173xx driver supports GeForce 5 series GPUs The kmod-nvidia-96xx driver supports GeForce 2 to GeForce 4 series GPUs 'nvidia-detect' identifies your device and tells you which one to use. I highly recommend you subscribe to the elrepo mailing list. Recently, Nvidia released a version that drops support for a number of commonly used cards. ELRepo proactively dealt with the issue as seen in this thread: http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2015-January/002508.html Like all other ELRepo's packages, they are built for RHEL and its rebuilds (including SL). Akemi
