Re: Nvidia Upgrade Agony

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Hi,

I need a set of nvidia rpms for an old rhel6 dell notebook with a nvidia
8400.

Since I upgrades to rhel 6.6, the ones I used stopped to work.

Does anyone know what is the appropriate version now?

Also, I have a new le novo notebook running f21. Anyone has experience with
bumblebee and nvidia optimus technology?
Definitively, nouveau did not work with bumblebee ...

By the way, atrpms-rpm-config need to be fixed for f21. The place macros
are kept now has changed,
and the original package is creating rpm names with f21 instead of fc21.
For now, I created a symbolic
link for macros.dist to /etc/rpm.

Thanks.



On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 4:10 AM, Stephen Collier <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 29/12/2014 4:30 pm, Stephen Collier wrote:
>
>> On 29/12/2014 8:08 am, Larry Kennedy wrote:
>>
>>> I'm running myth 0.26.1-296 on EL6 (2.6.32-431.el6.i686) with a GT210
>>> card and the nvidia 319.32 driver.
>>>
>>> About a week ago, I accidentally took an update to my Xorg server (now I
>>> have xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.15.0-25.el6.centos.i686), and after that I
>>> started getting a driver mismatch error (ABI 15 I seem to recall).  Anyway,
>>> I've seen this before, and I believe this means the nvidia 319 driver is at
>>> a lower version than is needed, so I figured all I need is an nvidia
>>> upgrade. If I remember right, the driver from atrpms was still far enough
>>> behind to cause the ABI 15 error, so I tried kmod-nvidia from elrepo.
>>> After removing the old nvidia 319 driver, this update pulled in these
>>> nvidia libraries:
>>>
>>> nvidia-x11-drv-340.65-1.el6.elrepo.i686
>>> kmod-nvidia-340.65-1.el6.elrepo.i686
>>>
>>> There is no nvidia kmdl rpm installed now (as was the case before), so I
>>> am not sure if this is a problem or not.  When I start the desktop,
>>> everything seems fine, and apps like Mozilla work, but none of the myth
>>> GUIs will start.  I get a segmentation fault with both the mythfrontend and
>>> mythtv-setup. Even with --verbose, mythfrontend gives me nothing to work
>>> with.
>>>
>>> As a test, I also tried doing the nvidia upgrade using scrpms.  With
>>> this upgrade, I was forced to move up to kernel-2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.i686,
>>> so at least I know this update is pulling in an nvidia-kmdl, unlike kmod.
>>> In the end, this upgrade attempt was less successful than the kmod upgrade
>>> in that the nvidia driver is never able to load, so the desktop never
>>> starts. At the bottom of Xorg.0.log it shows this:
>>>
>>> [    20.723] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
>>> [    20.723] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
>>> [    20.723] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
>>> [    20.723] (II) Unloading nvidia
>>> [    20.723] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist,
>>> 0)
>>> [    20.723] (EE) No drivers available.
>>> [    20.723] (EE) Fatal server error:
>>> [    20.723] (EE) no screens found(EE)
>>> [    20.723] (EE) Please consult the CentOS support at
>>> http://wiki.centos.org/Documentation
>>>
>>> This seems odd since "modprobe nvidia" succeeds.  I tried nvidia-xconfig
>>> to recreate the xorg.conf, but no go. Of course I am rebooting every time
>>> to get a clean start.  After many attempts, it looks like kmod-nvidia
>>> 340.65 may be my best option.
>>>
>>> Is anyone aware of an issue with mythtv 0.26 and the nvidia 340.xx
>>> driver?  Alternatively, if anyone has ideas on how to get the scrpms nvidia
>>> driver to work, I am open to trying that again too.
>>>
>>> I have options, but nothing looks good.  Downgrading Xorg seems
>>> problematic, so I didn't go there. I suppose I could upgrade myth to
>>> version 0.27 and see what happens, but that presents some difficulty on EL6
>>> (although I know that scrpms has compiled both myth 0.27 and the compatible
>>> version of Qt). It also triggers multiple myth upgrades for BE-FE
>>> compatibility. Another option is to go to EL7, but that requires a decent
>>> effort too since there is no good upgrade-in-place from EL6 32-bit to EL7).
>>>
>>> I apologize in advance if this post is somewhat schizophrenic.  I can
>>> provide more details if anyone can lend a hand.
>>>
>>> Larry
>>>
>>>  I'm sorry for the delay - I'll have a look and do some testing with my
>> el6 frontend I also upgraded a from el6 32bit to 64 as a path to el7 If you
>> want I'll send you the process.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Stephen
>>
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>>  I've found the problem and fixed it. The src rpms are built - the
> updated nvidia drivers will build over the next hour or so.
>
>
> Cheers
> Stephen
>
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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>I need a se=
t of nvidia rpms for an old rhel6 dell notebook with a nvidia 8400.<br><br>=
</div>Since I upgrades to rhel 6.6, the ones I used stopped to work.<br><br=
></div>Does anyone know what is the appropriate version now?<br><br></div>A=
lso, I have a new le novo notebook running f21. Anyone has experience with =
bumblebee and nvidia optimus technology?<br></div>Definitively, nouveau did=
 not work with bumblebee ...<br><br></div><div>By the way, atrpms-rpm-confi=
g need to be fixed for f21. The place macros are kept now has changed,<br><=
/div><div>and the original package is creating rpm names with f21 instead o=
f fc21. For now, I created a symbolic<br></div><div>link for macros.dist to=
 /etc/rpm. <br></div><div><br></div>Thanks. <br><div><div><div><br>=C2=A0 <=
br></div></div></div></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gma=
il_quote">On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 4:10 AM, Stephen Collier <span dir=3D"ltr=
">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">judithc@b=
igpond.net.au</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" st=
yle=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div =
class=3D"HOEnZb"><div class=3D"h5">On 29/12/2014 4:30 pm, Stephen Collier w=
rote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 29/12/2014 8:08 am, Larry Kennedy wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I&#39;m running myth 0.26.1-296 on EL6 (2.6.32-431.el6.i686) with a GT210 c=
ard and the nvidia 319.32 driver.<br>
<br>
About a week ago, I accidentally took an update to my Xorg server (now I ha=
ve xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.15.0-<u></u>25.el6.centos.i686), and after that I=
 started getting a driver mismatch error (ABI 15 I seem to recall).=C2=A0 A=
nyway, I&#39;ve seen this before, and I believe this means the nvidia 319 d=
river is at a lower version than is needed, so I figured all I need is an n=
vidia upgrade. If I remember right, the driver from atrpms was still far en=
ough behind to cause the ABI 15 error, so I tried kmod-nvidia from elrepo.=
=C2=A0 After removing the old nvidia 319 driver, this update pulled in thes=
e nvidia libraries:<br>
<br>
nvidia-x11-drv-340.65-1.el6.<u></u>elrepo.i686<br>
kmod-nvidia-340.65-1.el6.<u></u>elrepo.i686<br>
<br>
There is no nvidia kmdl rpm installed now (as was the case before), so I am=
 not sure if this is a problem or not.=C2=A0 When I start the desktop, ever=
ything seems fine, and apps like Mozilla work, but none of the myth GUIs wi=
ll start.=C2=A0 I get a segmentation fault with both the mythfrontend and m=
ythtv-setup. Even with --verbose, mythfrontend gives me nothing to work wit=
h.<br>
<br>
As a test, I also tried doing the nvidia upgrade using scrpms.=C2=A0 With t=
his upgrade, I was forced to move up to kernel-2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.<u></u>i6=
86, so at least I know this update is pulling in an nvidia-kmdl, unlike kmo=
d.=C2=A0 In the end, this upgrade attempt was less successful than the kmod=
 upgrade in that the nvidia driver is never able to load, so the desktop ne=
ver starts. At the bottom of Xorg.0.log it shows this:<br>
<br>
[=C2=A0 =C2=A0 20.723] (II) LoadModule: &quot;nvidia&quot;<br>
[=C2=A0 =C2=A0 20.723] (WW) Warning, couldn&#39;t open module nvidia<br>
[=C2=A0 =C2=A0 20.723] (II) UnloadModule: &quot;nvidia&quot;<br>
[=C2=A0 =C2=A0 20.723] (II) Unloading nvidia<br>
[=C2=A0 =C2=A0 20.723] (EE) Failed to load module &quot;nvidia&quot; (modul=
e does not exist, 0)<br>
[=C2=A0 =C2=A0 20.723] (EE) No drivers available.<br>
[=C2=A0 =C2=A0 20.723] (EE) Fatal server error:<br>
[=C2=A0 =C2=A0 20.723] (EE) no screens found(EE)<br>
[=C2=A0 =C2=A0 20.723] (EE) Please consult the CentOS support at <a href=3D=
"http://wiki.centos.org/Documentation" target=3D"_blank">http://wiki.centos=
.org/<u></u>Documentation</a><br>
<br>
This seems odd since &quot;modprobe nvidia&quot; succeeds.=C2=A0 I tried nv=
idia-xconfig to recreate the xorg.conf, but no go. Of course I am rebooting=
 every time to get a clean start.=C2=A0 After many attempts, it looks like =
kmod-nvidia 340.65 may be my best option.<br>
<br>
Is anyone aware of an issue with mythtv 0.26 and the nvidia 340.xx driver?=
=C2=A0 Alternatively, if anyone has ideas on how to get the scrpms nvidia d=
river to work, I am open to trying that again too.<br>
<br>
I have options, but nothing looks good.=C2=A0 Downgrading Xorg seems proble=
matic, so I didn&#39;t go there. I suppose I could upgrade myth to version =
0.27 and see what happens, but that presents some difficulty on EL6 (althou=
gh I know that scrpms has compiled both myth 0.27 and the compatible versio=
n of Qt). It also triggers multiple myth upgrades for BE-FE compatibility. =
Another option is to go to EL7, but that requires a decent effort too since=
 there is no good upgrade-in-place from EL6 32-bit to EL7).<br>
<br>
I apologize in advance if this post is somewhat schizophrenic.=C2=A0 I can =
provide more details if anyone can lend a hand.<br>
<br>
Larry<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
I&#39;m sorry for the delay - I&#39;ll have a look and do some testing with=
 my el6 frontend I also upgraded a from el6 32bit to 64 as a path to el7 If=
 you want I&#39;ll send you the process.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
Stephen<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div></div>
I&#39;ve found the problem and fixed it. The src rpms are built - the updat=
ed nvidia drivers will build over the next hour or so.<div class=3D"HOEnZb"=
><div class=3D"h5"><br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
Stephen<br>
<br>
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