CentOS 7.4 nvidia driver install issue

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ninjaboy
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CentOS 7.4 nvidia driver install issue

Post by ninjaboy » 2017/09/15 20:19:19

I'm running in to issues trying to install 346.46-0.x86_64 nvidia driver after updating to CentOS 7.4 .
I'm using same packages / process as was used on CentOS 7.3 ( blacklist nouveau ) and install Cuda 7.5 with 346.46 driver. I'm getting ` Error: Driver 'nvidia' is already registered, aborting..` errors

Anyone else running in to similar issues with 7.4 ( 3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64 kernel )

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Sep 13 21:01:44 sars-image-gpure-1505335543 kernel: NVRM: request_mem_region failed for 16M @ 0xfd000000. This can#012NVRM: occur when a driver such as rivatv is loaded and claims#012NVRM: ownership of the device's registers.
Sep 13 21:01:44 sars-image-gpure-1505335543 kernel: nvidia: probe of 0000:00:04.0 failed with error -1
Sep 13 21:01:44 sars-image-gpure-1505335543 kernel: Error: Driver 'nvlink' is already registered, aborting...
Sep 13 21:01:44 sars-image-gpure-1505335543 kernel: Error: Driver 'nvidia' is already registered, aborting...
Sep 13 21:01:44 sars-image-gpure-1505335543 kernel: NVRM: DRM init failed
Sep 13 21:01:44 sars-image-gpure-1505335543 kernel: NVRM: NVIDIA init module failed!
Sep 13 21:01:04 sars-image-gpure-1505335543 kernel: nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
Sep 13 21:01:04 sars-image-gpure-1505335543 kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Sep 13 21:01:04 sars-image-gpure-1505335543 kernel: Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
Sep 13 21:01:04 sars-image-gpure-1505335543 kernel: nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
Sep 13 21:01:04 sars-image-gpure-1505335543 kernel: Error: Driver 'nvidia' is already registered, aborting...
Sep 13 21:01:04 sars-image-gpure-1505335543 kernel: NVRM: DRM init failed
Sep 13 21:01:04 sars-image-gpure-1505335543 kernel: NVRM: NVIDIA init module failed!
```

bonedome
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Re: CentOS 7.4 nvidia driver install issue

Post by bonedome » 2017/09/17 10:24:21

Hello
this is mostly guess work here but
Sep 13 21:01:04 sars-image-gpure-1505335543 kernel: nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
would suggest the driver is not gpl licensed, if you're trying to install with yum you cold try

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yum --nogpgcheck install
or import the missing gpg key.
Hope this helps

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Re: CentOS 7.4 nvidia driver install issue

Post by scottro » 2017/09/17 11:19:58

Have you tried using the elrepo version of NVidia? It does all the work for you.

https://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia

No need to manually blacklist, it takes care of all that.
New users should check the FAQ and Read Me First pages

ninjaboy
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Re: CentOS 7.4 nvidia driver install issue

Post by ninjaboy » 2017/09/19 18:01:35

I tried using the Nvidia RPM's and Their run files, both appear to be very broken in CentOS 7.4 . From my research this appears to a more widespread issue between nvidia and latest kernel:
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topi ... -kernels-/

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