New Video Card issue

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taylorkh
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New Video Card issue

Post by taylorkh » 2015/12/10 20:11:51

When it rains it pours :( I had posted a while back about my out of date Nvidia card. It works fine with the old 331 driver. nvidia-detect tells me I need the 340 driver. This does not work - cannot install. As I cannot install various other distros with this card and dual monitors, separate X sessions I procured a new card - Nvidia K420 - an entry level workstation card.

I plugged in the card in place of the old GeForce GT220 on the machine with CentOS 6.7 and the old 331 driver. It seemed to work fine. Both displays lit up with the correct panels etc.

I installed the latest nvidia-detect thusly:

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yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=elrepo install nvidia-detect
and ran it

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[root@taylor12 ken]# nvidia-detect -v
Probing for supported NVIDIA devices...
[10de:0ff3] NVIDIA Corporation GK107GL [Quadro K420]
This device requires the current 352.63 NVIDIA driver kmod-nvidia
I then installed the desired package

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[root@taylor12 ken]# yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-nvidia
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, refresh-packagekit, security
Setting up Install Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * elrepo: iad.mirror.rackspace.com
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-nvidia.x86_64 0:331.38-1.el6.elrepo will be updated
--> Processing Dependency: nvidia-kmod = 331.38 for package: nvidia-x11-drv-331.38-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: nvidia-kmod = 331.38 for package: nvidia-x11-drv-331.38-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
---> Package kmod-nvidia.x86_64 0:352.63-1.el6.elrepo will be an update
--> Running transaction check
---> Package nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64 0:331.38-1.el6.elrepo will be updated
---> Package nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64 0:352.63-1.el6.elrepo will be an update
--> Processing Dependency: yum-plugin-nvidia >= 1.0.2 for package: nvidia-x11-drv-352.63-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package yum-plugin-nvidia.noarch 0:1.0.2-1.el6.elrepo will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package                Arch        Version                   Repository   Size
================================================================================
Updating:
 kmod-nvidia            x86_64      352.63-1.el6.elrepo       elrepo      4.9 M
Installing for dependencies:
 yum-plugin-nvidia      noarch      1.0.2-1.el6.elrepo        elrepo       12 k
Updating for dependencies:
 nvidia-x11-drv         x86_64      352.63-1.el6.elrepo       elrepo       43 M

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install       1 Package(s)
Upgrade       2 Package(s)

Total download size: 48 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/3): kmod-nvidia-352.63-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm        | 4.9 MB     00:05     
(2/3): nvidia-x11-drv-352.63-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm     |  43 MB     00:46     
(3/3): yum-plugin-nvidia-1.0.2-1.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm   |  12 kB     00:00     
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                           945 kB/s |  48 MB     00:52     
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing : yum-plugin-nvidia-1.0.2-1.el6.elrepo.noarch                  1/5 
  Updating   : kmod-nvidia-352.63-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64  
  Installing : yum-plugin-nvidia-1.0.2-1.el6.elrepo.noarch                  1/5 
  Updating   : kmod-nvidia-352.63-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64                       2/5 
  Working. This may take some time ...
gzip: /boot/initramfs-2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.x86_64.tmp.gz: No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/boot/initramfs-2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.x86_64.tmp': No such file or directory
Done.
Except for the issue regarding an OLD kernel it seemed to have installed OK.

Upon boot it got to the point where the blue bars chase one another across the bottom of the screen. The bar turned white and that was it. It goes no further. I guess I should have pressed Esc to watch the messages. I will switch back to my test drive and do that - perhaps it will tell me something.

In the interim - have I done something wrong???

TIA,

Ken

taylorkh
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Re: New Video Card issue

Post by taylorkh » 2015/12/10 21:19:10

Answering my own question again :roll: I know enough to never try this stuff in production first so I was working on a cloned drive. I put it back in the system and booted. I observed the following as the last entry on screen - and then it was locked up

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set 5.0.0.0 sdh Assuming drive cache: write through
Having no idea what that referred to and not seeing it after the starting stunnel message on a properly booting image I decided to try again. I restored my test image with Clonezilla and did the install again. This time it did not stop on the AWOL initramfs file. It ended thusly

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Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install       1 Package(s)
Upgrade       2 Package(s)

Total download size: 48 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/3): kmod-nvidia-352.63-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm        | 4.9 MB     01:05     
(2/3): nvidia-x11-drv-352.63-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm     |  43 MB     08:58     
(3/3): yum-plugin-nvidia-1.0.2-1.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm   |  12 kB     00:00     
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                            82 kB/s |  48 MB     10:04     
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing : yum-plugin-nvidia-1.0.2-1.el6.elrepo.noarch                  1/5 
  Updating   : kmod-nvidia-352.63-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64                       2/5 
Working. This may take some time ...
Done.
  Updating   : nvidia-x11-drv-352.63-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64                    3/5 
  Cleanup    : nvidia-x11-drv-331.38-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64                    4/5 
  Cleanup    : kmod-nvidia-331.38-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64                       5/5 
Working. This may take some time ...
Done.
  Verifying  : kmod-nvidia-352.63-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64                       1/5 
  Verifying  : yum-plugin-nvidia-1.0.2-1.el6.elrepo.noarch                  2/5 
  Verifying  : nvidia-x11-drv-352.63-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64                    3/5 
  Verifying  : nvidia-x11-drv-331.38-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64                    4/5 
  Verifying  : kmod-nvidia-331.38-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64                       5/5 

Dependency Installed:
  yum-plugin-nvidia.noarch 0:1.0.2-1.el6.elrepo                                 

Updated:
  kmod-nvidia.x86_64 0:352.63-1.el6.elrepo                                      

Dependency Updated:
  nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64 0:352.63-1.el6.elrepo                                   

Complete!
I guess that not seeing Complete in the first try should have given me a hint :oops:

It works fine now - at least the driver is properly installed and the dual display is working as desired. Time to make a new snapshot of my production drive and try it for real. Please stick a fork in this thread. It is resolved.

Ken

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