On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:20:09 -0800, Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions. They were very helpful.

-- Bill

>On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On 02/25/2015 11:44 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> 
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