Help With CentOS 7 And Nvidia
Hello my hardware has:
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [ION] (rev a2)
rpm -qa | grep nvidia nvidia-detect-410.78-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-340xx-340.107-2.el7_6.elrepo.x86_64
nvidia-x11-drv-340xx-340.107-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
rpm -qa | grep libva libva-vdpau-driver-0.7.4-19.el7.x86_64
libva-utils-1.8.3-4.el7.x86_64
libva-devel-1.8.3-1.el7.x86_64
libva-1.8.3-1.el7.x86_64
rpm -qa | grep vdpau libva-vdpau-driver-0.7.4-19.el7.x86_64
libvdpau-1.1.1-3.el7.x86_64
vainfo libva info: VA-API version 0.40.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_40
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 0.40 (libva )
vainfo: Driver version: Splitted-Desktop Systems VDPAU backend for VA-API –
0.7.4
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG4Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG4AdvancedSimple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
grep Driver /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 43.069] X.Org Video Driver: 24.0
[ 45.744] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 45.744] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 340.107 Thu May 24 21:18:05
PDT 2018
[ 45.744] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
[ 47.328] Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
grep -i vdpau /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 46.978] (II) NVIDIA(0): [DRI2] VDPAU driver: nvidia
So to me all looks good – but there is no hardware acceleration???
When I play the video with totem its taking way too much CPU. I removed the ~/.cache/gstreamer* .
What have I missed ?
Jerry
2 thoughts on - Help With CentOS 7 And Nvidia
My initial guess would be that Nvidia dropped full support for a ~10
year old card. They usually only focus on the last 5 years and drop various ‘features’ for older cards over time. I say this from running into this back when EL7 came out and people were having similar problems where ‘it worked in EL6’ and then it didn’t after EL7
I don’t use totem but isn’t there a way to tell it which video out to use?
I would recommend installing vlc or mplayer and trying again. You can install them from the RPM Fusion repo. They both allow you to choose the video driver if needed, and I wouldn’t be surprised if their defaults work better for you out of the box.