Re: Nvidia Upgrade Agony
Stephen Collier <[email protected]> Tue, 06 Jan 2015 11:33:04 +1100
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============2442333876037494507== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------040405050509090709050402" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040405050509090709050402 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 5/01/2015 6:52 pm, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > 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] <mailto:[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 > > _______________________________________________ > atrpms-users mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > atrpms-users mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users > > > > > -- > Paulo Roma Cavalcanti > LCG - UFRJ > > > _______________________________________________ > atrpms-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users Paulo, According to the nvidia website 340.65 should work with the 8400 GPU Cheers Stephen --------------040405050509090709050402 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> On 5/01/2015 6:52 pm, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:CAMgUmn==8Eq2a_1c1wQau6UfUoDD9mFUN+GwLF4s3jY3c73viQ@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr"> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div>Hi,<br> <br> </div> I need a set 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> Also, 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-config 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 of 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> <br> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 4:10 AM, Stephen Collier <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="HOEnZb"> <div class="h5">On 29/12/2014 4:30 pm, Stephen Collier wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On 29/12/2014 8:08 am, Larry Kennedy wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 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.<br> <br> 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:<br> <br> nvidia-x11-drv-340.65-1.el6.elrepo.i686<br> kmod-nvidia-340.65-1.el6.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. 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.<br> <br> 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:<br> <br> [ 20.723] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"<br> [ 20.723] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia<br> [ 20.723] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"<br> [ 20.723] (II) Unloading nvidia<br> [ 20.723] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)<br> [ 20.723] (EE) No drivers available.<br> [ 20.723] (EE) Fatal server error:<br> [ 20.723] (EE) no screens found(EE)<br> [ 20.723] (EE) Please consult the CentOS support at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://wiki.centos.org/Documentation" target="_blank">http://wiki.centos.org/Documentation</a><br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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).<br> <br> I apologize in advance if this post is somewhat schizophrenic. I can provide more details if anyone can lend a hand.<br> <br> Larry<br> <br> </blockquote> 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.<br> <br> Cheers<br> Stephen<br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> atrpms-users mailing list<br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a><br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users" target="_blank">http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users</a><br> <br> </blockquote> </div> </div> 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. <div class="HOEnZb"> <div class="h5"><br> <br> Cheers<br> Stephen<br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> atrpms-users mailing list<br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a><br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users" target="_blank">http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users</a><br> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <br> <br clear="all"> <br> -- <br> <div class="gmail_signature"> <div dir="ltr">Paulo Roma Cavalcanti<br> LCG - UFRJ</div> </div> </div> <br> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <br> <pre wrap="">_______________________________________________ atrpms-users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users">http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users</a></pre> </blockquote> Paulo,<br> <br> According to the nvidia website 340.65 should work with the 8400 GPU<br> <br> Cheers<br> Stephen<br> </body> </html> --------------040405050509090709050402-- --===============2442333876037494507== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ atrpms-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users --===============2442333876037494507==--