Nvidia GF100GL (Quadro 6000) driver

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Nvidia GF100GL (Quadro 6000) driver

Post by MartinR » 2016/10/18 15:17:39

I've been trying to install the nvidia driver for a GF100GL (Quadro 6000) graphics controller. The system is an IBM x3650-m4 running CentOS 6.8 fully patched up to 3 October.

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# inxi -G -c0
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GF100GL [Quadro 6000]
           Display Server: X.org 1.15.0 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: vesa,fbdev,nv)
           tty size: 80x58 Advanced Data: N/A for root
# uname -a
Linux <name> 2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 23 03:35:39 UTC  2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I installed nvidia-detect:

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# yum list nvidia-detect
Installed Packages
nvidia-detect.x86_64                 352.63-1.el6.elrepo                 @elrepo
# nvidia-detect -v
Probing for supported NVIDIA devices...
[10de:06d8] NVIDIA Corporation GF100GL [Quadro 6000] This device requires the
current 352.63 NVIDIA driver kmod-nvidia
There is a problem though:

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# yum list | grep nvidia | grep x86_64 | grep -v 32bit
kmod-nvidia.x86_64                         352.79-1.el6.elrepo          elrepo  
kmod-nvidia-173xx.x86_64                   173.14.39-2.el6.elrepo       elrepo  
kmod-nvidia-304xx.x86_64                   304.131-1.el6.elrepo         elrepo  
kmod-nvidia-340xx.x86_64                   340.96-1.el6.elrepo          elrepo  
kmod-nvidia-96xx.x86_64                    96.43.23-1.el6.elrepo        elrepo  
nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64                      352.79-1.el6.elrepo          elrepo  
nvidia-x11-drv-173xx.x86_64                173.14.39-2.el6.elrepo       elrepo   
nvidia-x11-drv-304xx.x86_64                304.131-1.el6.elrepo         elrepo  
nvidia-x11-drv-340xx.x86_64                340.96-1.el6.elrepo          elrepo  
nvidia-x11-drv-96xx.x86_64                 96.43.23-1.el6.elrepo        elrepo  
No 352.63 driver is available. I installed kmod-nvidia and nvidia-x11-drv which are both the 352.79 version, rebooted and got a kernel panic. The stack trace showed several references to nvidia. I did a full power cycle restart, the same thing happened. I then did a staged boot (single, level 3 and then level 5) and the system crashed following telinit 5.

When I did a staged boot to level 3 and removed the nvidia packages the system was able to complete its bootstrap happily.

Is it possible to load an nvidia driver for this card, and if so how? We are wanting to trial the Impetus Afea solver and they ask for the nvidia driver to enable the GPU to be used.

Thanks,
Martin

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Re: Nvidia GF100GL (Quadro 6000) driver

Post by TrevorH » 2016/10/18 17:55:53

Hmm, your kernel is a 6.7 one not a 6.8. Also

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# yum list --enablerepo=elrepo-testing list kmod-nvidia\*
...
Available Packages
kmod-nvidia.x86_64                           367.57-1.el6.elrepo                        elrepo
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

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Re: Nvidia GF100GL (Quadro 6000) driver

Post by MartinR » 2016/10/19 09:08:44

Ah, sorry. :oops:
I'd pulled a production machine off because of the hardware. All test machines are at 6.8, production machines won't change until next system time. Update on the test node running at the moment.

I'll download the elrepo-testing repo, is 367.57 the appropriate one for C6.7 or C6.8?

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Re: Nvidia GF100GL (Quadro 6000) driver

Post by TrevorH » 2016/10/19 09:37:47

Although I enabled elrepo-testing, that package came from the main elrepo repo. I don't know if there were changes between 6.7 and 6.8 that requires kmod-nvidia to be version specific. It's not usual but does sometimes happen if RH change the ABI.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
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Re: Nvidia GF100GL (Quadro 6000) driver

Post by MartinR » 2016/10/19 10:25:28

I did wonder about the -testing, I just assumed that it was ignoring it for reporting. Searching -testing shows that there are no nvidia modules available:

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# find elrepo-testing-6 -name \kmod-nvidia\*
#
I've cleared out the elrepo-6 distro and am downloading a fresh copy. Once I've copied it across to the systems and run another update I'll get back to you with results.

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