On 02/26/2015 08:20 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> 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
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