On 02/26/2015 08:20 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
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
Excellent with one remaining question: after installing the ELRepo RPM
instead of the much more messy Nvidia driver, will Nvidia CUDA
(including the Nvidia nvcc compiler) system function? Will CUDA "see"
the Nvidia GPU cards with the ELRepo driver as with the Nvidia driver?
Yasha
