Installed NVIDIA driver - but can't get it to kick in

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epk3
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Installed NVIDIA driver - but can't get it to kick in

Post by epk3 » 2019/12/11 12:25:42

I've recently installed CentOS 8, and have added NVIDIA's official RHEL 8 repository
(with baseurl=http://developer.download.nvidia.com/co ... el8/x86_64 )
I installed the nvidia driver (and CUDA, and some other packages), and am expecting to see the driver loaded. But - it isn't. Nouveau is being used.

I tried disabling / black-listing nouveau; it was indeed not loaded, but the nVIDIA driver did not load instead. nvidia-xconfig? Tried that, it didn't help either. I can't modprove it either (I think).

I obviously want to avoid manually installing the driver and use the packaged version (which is what some web pages suggest). So - how can I make the NVIDIA driver "kick in"?
A Devuan man stuck with CentOS 8

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Re: Installed NVIDIA driver - but can't get it to kick in

Post by TrevorH » 2019/12/11 13:56:11

So if it's successfully blacklisted then it will not appear in the output from lsmod | grep -i nouv - does it?
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Re: Installed NVIDIA driver - but can't get it to kick in

Post by epk3 » 2019/12/11 15:06:33

TrevorH wrote:
2019/12/11 13:56:11
So if it's successfully blacklisted then it will not appear in the output from lsmod | grep -i nouv - does it?
Yes, that's right.
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Re: Installed NVIDIA driver - but can't get it to kick in

Post by jlehtone » 2019/12/11 18:18:58

Does that installation method disable Wayland?

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Re: Installed NVIDIA driver - but can't get it to kick in

Post by Saladin » 2020/01/24 10:18:28

I installed the nvidia driver from the same repo. (NVIDIA Repo)
After reboot the system neither use nouveau nor nvidia driver. It uses LVMpipe driver instead.

Here my original config info :
System: Host: Salaheddine-PC Kernel: 4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Gnome 3.32.2
Distro: CentOS Linux release 8.1.1911 (Core)
Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME Z270-P v: Rev X.0x serial: <root required> UEFI: American Megatrends
v: 1205 date: 05/11/2018
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-7700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP L2 cache: 8192 KiB
Speed: 4400 MHz min/max: 800/4500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 4400 2: 4400 3: 4400 4: 4400 5: 4400 6: 4400 7: 4402
8: 4428
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] driver: nouveau v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.3 driver: nouveau,vesa unloaded: fbdev,modesetting
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: NV134 v: 4.3 Mesa 19.1.4

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Re: Installed NVIDIA driver - but can't get it to kick in

Post by aks » 2020/01/24 17:05:00

Yeah nvidia disables wayland - you have to use x11 (at the moment).

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