Hello I'm currently using KDE Neon and looking at switching to Centos as I need an rpm based distro.
My big concern is if it supports my laptop which uses the Nvidia 1060 and Intel gpu in that weird muxless Nvidia Prime setup. I tried OpenSuse but in the end the truth came out that they do not currently have a working solution like Ubuntu does.
So to save me many days of fiddling I figured I would ask here first about peoples experiences.
ps I don't need gpu switching, I just need the Nvidia gpu to work in the KDE RPM Linux environment as it will be plugged in while doing heavy 3d graphics work/simulations.
CentOS 7 Nvidia Prime support?
CentOS 7 Nvidia Prime support?
Last edited by wrender on 2018/11/27 22:04:23, edited 2 times in total.
Re: CentOS 7 Nvidia Prime support?
I guess you want to use nvidia's proprietary driver. So it will certainly not work ootb. But the upcoming CentOS 7.6 will have libglvnd and Xorg 1.20 (including serverside glvnd/glxvnd) which might be very helpful for notebooks with nvidia prime.
Re: CentOS 7 Nvidia Prime support?
Yes that is correct I will be using Nvidia's proprietary drivers.
That is good news that 7.6 will be able to support Nvidia prime.
ps. You wouldn't happen to know when centos 7.6 is targeted to be released? ( I am new to the Red Hat community I apologize if this is a dumb question).
That is good news that 7.6 will be able to support Nvidia prime.
ps. You wouldn't happen to know when centos 7.6 is targeted to be released? ( I am new to the Red Hat community I apologize if this is a dumb question).
Re: CentOS 7 Nvidia Prime support?
You can already update to it by using yum --enablerepo=cr update
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
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