On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:20:09 -0800, Akemi Yagi <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks to everyone for your suggestions. They were very helpful. -- Bill >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
