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Re: AW: anyone get nvidia-x11-drv to work under 6.2_x64?
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Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]>
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Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:41:54 -0800
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On 02/20/2012 10:29 AM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>> Von: [log in to unmask]
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Im Auftrag von
>> Todd
>> And Margo Chester
>> Gesendet: Montag, 20. Februar 2012 05:14
>> An: Scientific Linux Users
>> Betreff: anyone get nvidia-x11-drv to work under 6.2_x64?
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> After the upgrade from hell (6.1 --> 6.2) and not being
>> able to start X11, I found the following:
>>
>> The nvidia drivers (kmod-nvidia, nvidia-x11-drv) failed to
>> open my display. So, I had to revert to the Nouveau
>> (xorg-x11-drv-nouveau) drivers. Which, of course, I
>> had to install the hard way.
>>
>> Has anyone got
>>
>> kmod-nvidia-295.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>> nvidia-x11-drv-295.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>> nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-295.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> to work on SL6.2 x64 successfully? And, if so, what/how did
>> you do it?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> -T
>>
>
> On 02/20/2012 12:29 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>  > Hi Todd,
>  >
>  > have a look on http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=234595,
> this is
>  > for Fedora 14-16.
>  > But it solved the issue for my US collegue on RHEL 6.2 too.
>  >
>  > Kind regards,
>  >
>  > Peter
>  >
>  > Dr. Peter Stauffert
>  > Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH& Co. KG
>  > mailto:[log in to unmask]
>  > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>
> Looking at that seems a bit scary. There are a lot of modifications and
> steps to take. This seems a bit weird as nvidia-x11-drv worked
> fine under SL 6.1. But, maybe I will get brave.
>
> Thank you!
> -T

I successfully have built and am running the Nvidia drivers from the 
Nvidia package; this is necessary to run the CUDA 4 environment for 
Tesla GPUs from Nvidia, an environment that does not seem to be 
compatible with the nouveau package that I have had to disable.  Note 
that I did not use any EL 6 distribution repository, but the actual 
package from Nvidia (that may "taint the kernel" in that it may contain 
non-GPL source).  I would present a screen shot that contains specific 
versions, etc., to this list, but evidently MIME attachments are not 
allowed.  I am running SL 6x, and thus presumably have the latest 
updates.  Note that this is not with the stock SL 6x kernel, but with a 
later 2.6 version (currently on this workstation:  2.6.38.8-32.el6.x86_64).

Yasha Karant

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