CentOS 7 + NVidia Quadro 2000 Graphic Card
Hi,
I’m currently trying to install CentOS 7 (desktop) on a Lenovo workstation with an NVidia Quadro 2000 graphical card.
Normally I know my way around NVidia cards and how to configure them either using the ELRepo drivers or those downloaded from nvidia.com. I
have written a corresponding article on my blog:
https://blog.microlinux.fr/nvidia-CentOS/
But this time it looks like I have no luck. ELRepo’s nvidia-detect utility detected the ‘kmod-nvidia’ driver, but installing it gave no result. No X.
Then I tried a manual install, blacklisting nouveau, installing the necessary build tools, etc. The driver would build OK, but again, no luck, no X.
Has anybody got this card to behave under RHEL/CentOS 7 ?
Cheers,
Niki
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6 thoughts on - CentOS 7 + NVidia Quadro 2000 Graphic Card
Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
I’m using the following on CentOS 7.4:
uname -r :
3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64
Model: Quadro 2000
IRQ: 31
GPU UUID: GPU-6ecc2b2b-34ce-6e47-1e08-55389dc64680
Video BIOS: 70.06.31.02.01
Bus Type: PCIe DMA Size: 40 bits DMA Mask: 0xffffffffff Bus Location: 0000:0f:00.0
Device Minor: 0
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 384.90 Tue Sep 19
19:17:35 PDT 2017
GCC version: gcc version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-16) (GCC)
I manually built the driver – from the nvidia-installer.log :
nvidia-installer command line:
./nvidia-installer
–accept-license
–no-questions
–silent
–install-libglvnd
The nouveau driver is blacklisted via the boot cmdline option:
rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau
Works fine for me …
James Pearson
Le 10/11/2017 à 09:39, James Pearson a écrit :
Hmmmm. I have exactly the same setup, and KDE looks like LEGO for toddlers (something like 640×480). I checked that ‘nouveau’ is blacklisted, built the NVidia 384.90 driver manually, rebooted, and no joy.
I started a KDE neon LiveCD (with very good automatic hardware configuration) on that same workstation, and everything seems OK, resolution looks like 1280×1024 on the 19″ monitor.
I’m puzzled.
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Nicolas,
Did you play with nvidia-settings? Maybe also wipe out xorg.conf and start afresh.
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Le 10/11/2017 à 14:42, Nux! a écrit :
Thanks for all your suggestions. I spent a few hours fiddling with various driver versions and configurations. In the end, I simply ripped out the %&#@$ Quadro card and replaced it with a GeForce 8300, which works perfectly with the kmod-nvidia-340xx driver.
Cheers,
Niki
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Yes, sometimes the only winning move is not to play. :-D
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Le 11/11/2017 à 13:19, Nux! a écrit :
It was either this or throwing the whole workstation out of the window altogether. I’m a very patient guy (or I wouldn’t work as a sysadmin)
but even I have my limits.
:o)
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