Mailing List Archive: Nvidia Upgrade Agony

Nvidia Upgrade Agony

Dec 28, 2014, 1:08 PM

Post #1 of 7 (4906 views)

I'm running myth 0.26.1-296 on EL6 (2.6.32-431.el6.i686) with a GT210 card
and the nvidia 319.32 driver.

About a week ago, I accidentally took an update to my Xorg server (now I
have xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.15.0-25.el6.centos.i686), and after that I
started getting a driver mismatch error (ABI 15 I seem to recall). Anyway,
I've seen this before, and I believe this means the nvidia 319 driver is at
a lower version than is needed, so I figured all I need is an nvidia
upgrade. If I remember right, the driver from atrpms was still far enough
behind to cause the ABI 15 error, so I tried kmod-nvidia from elrepo.
After removing the old nvidia 319 driver, this update pulled in these
nvidia libraries:

nvidia-x11-drv-340.65-1.el6.elrepo.i686
kmod-nvidia-340.65-1.el6.elrepo.i686

There is no nvidia kmdl rpm installed now (as was the case before), so I am
not sure if this is a problem or not. When I start the desktop, everything
seems fine, and apps like Mozilla work, but none of the myth GUIs will
start. I get a segmentation fault with both the mythfrontend and
mythtv-setup. Even with --verbose, mythfrontend gives me nothing to work
with.

As a test, I also tried doing the nvidia upgrade using scrpms. With this
upgrade, I was forced to move up to kernel-2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.i686, so at
least I know this update is pulling in an nvidia-kmdl, unlike kmod. In the
end, this upgrade attempt was less successful than the kmod upgrade in that
the nvidia driver is never able to load, so the desktop never starts. At
the bottom of Xorg.0.log it shows this:

[ 20.723] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[ 20.723] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
[ 20.723] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
[ 20.723] (II) Unloading nvidia
[ 20.723] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 20.723] (EE) No drivers available.
[ 20.723] (EE) Fatal server error:
[ 20.723] (EE) no screens found(EE)
[ 20.723] (EE) Please consult the CentOS support at
http://wiki.centos.org/Documentation

This seems odd since "modprobe nvidia" succeeds. I tried nvidia-xconfig to
recreate the xorg.conf, but no go. Of course I am rebooting every time to
get a clean start. After many attempts, it looks like kmod-nvidia 340.65
may be my best option.

Is anyone aware of an issue with mythtv 0.26 and the nvidia 340.xx driver?
Alternatively, if anyone has ideas on how to get the scrpms nvidia driver
to work, I am open to trying that again too.

I have options, but nothing looks good. Downgrading Xorg seems
problematic, so I didn't go there. I suppose I could upgrade myth to
version 0.27 and see what happens, but that presents some difficulty on EL6
(although I know that scrpms has compiled both myth 0.27 and the compatible
version of Qt). It also triggers multiple myth upgrades for BE-FE
compatibility. Another option is to go to EL7, but that requires a decent
effort too since there is no good upgrade-in-place from EL6 32-bit to EL7).

I apologize in advance if this post is somewhat schizophrenic. I can
provide more details if anyone can lend a hand.

Larry

Re: Nvidia Upgrade Agony [ In reply to ]

judithc at bigpond

Dec 28, 2014, 9:30 PM

Post #2 of 7 (4865 views)

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On 29/12/2014 8:08 am, Larry Kennedy wrote:
> I'm running myth 0.26.1-296 on EL6 (2.6.32-431.el6.i686) with a GT210
> card and the nvidia 319.32 driver.
>
> About a week ago, I accidentally took an update to my Xorg server (now
> I have xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.15.0-25.el6.centos.i686), and after that
> I started getting a driver mismatch error (ABI 15 I seem to recall).
> Anyway, I've seen this before, and I believe this means the nvidia 319
> driver is at a lower version than is needed, so I figured all I need
> is an nvidia upgrade. If I remember right, the driver from atrpms was
> still far enough behind to cause the ABI 15 error, so I tried
> kmod-nvidia from elrepo. After removing the old nvidia 319 driver,
> this update pulled in these nvidia libraries:
>
> nvidia-x11-drv-340.65-1.el6.elrepo.i686
> kmod-nvidia-340.65-1.el6.elrepo.i686
>
> There is no nvidia kmdl rpm installed now (as was the case before), so
> I am not sure if this is a problem or not. When I start the desktop,
> everything seems fine, and apps like Mozilla work, but none of the
> myth GUIs will start. I get a segmentation fault with both the
> mythfrontend and mythtv-setup. Even with --verbose, mythfrontend gives
> me nothing to work with.
>
> As a test, I also tried doing the nvidia upgrade using scrpms. With
> this upgrade, I was forced to move up to
> kernel-2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.i686, so at least I know this update is
> pulling in an nvidia-kmdl, unlike kmod. In the end, this upgrade
> attempt was less successful than the kmod upgrade in that the nvidia
> driver is never able to load, so the desktop never starts. At the
> bottom of Xorg.0.log it shows this:
>
> [ 20.723] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
> [ 20.723] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
> [ 20.723] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> [ 20.723] (II) Unloading nvidia
> [ 20.723] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not
> exist, 0)
> [ 20.723] (EE) No drivers available.
> [ 20.723] (EE) Fatal server error:
> [ 20.723] (EE) no screens found(EE)
> [ 20.723] (EE) Please consult the CentOS support at
> http://wiki.centos.org/Documentation
>
> This seems odd since "modprobe nvidia" succeeds. I tried
> nvidia-xconfig to recreate the xorg.conf, but no go. Of course I am
> rebooting every time to get a clean start. After many attempts, it
> looks like kmod-nvidia 340.65 may be my best option.
>
> Is anyone aware of an issue with mythtv 0.26 and the nvidia 340.xx
> driver? Alternatively, if anyone has ideas on how to get the scrpms
> nvidia driver to work, I am open to trying that again too.
>
> I have options, but nothing looks good. Downgrading Xorg seems
> problematic, so I didn't go there. I suppose I could upgrade myth to
> version 0.27 and see what happens, but that presents some difficulty
> on EL6 (although I know that scrpms has compiled both myth 0.27 and
> the compatible version of Qt). It also triggers multiple myth upgrades
> for BE-FE compatibility. Another option is to go to EL7, but that
> requires a decent effort too since there is no good upgrade-in-place
> from EL6 32-bit to EL7).
>
> I apologize in advance if this post is somewhat schizophrenic. I can
> provide more details if anyone can lend a hand.
>
> Larry
>
I'm sorry for the delay - I'll have a look and do some testing with my
el6 frontend I also upgraded a from el6 32bit to 64 as a path to el7 If
you want I'll send you the process.

Cheers
Stephen

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Re: Nvidia Upgrade Agony [ In reply to ]

judithc at bigpond

Dec 28, 2014, 10:10 PM

Post #3 of 7 (4871 views)

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On 29/12/2014 4:30 pm, Stephen Collier wrote:
> On 29/12/2014 8:08 am, Larry Kennedy wrote:
>> I'm running myth 0.26.1-296 on EL6 (2.6.32-431.el6.i686) with a GT210
>> card and the nvidia 319.32 driver.
>>
>> About a week ago, I accidentally took an update to my Xorg server
>> (now I have xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.15.0-25.el6.centos.i686), and
>> after that I started getting a driver mismatch error (ABI 15 I seem
>> to recall). Anyway, I've seen this before, and I believe this means
>> the nvidia 319 driver is at a lower version than is needed, so I
>> figured all I need is an nvidia upgrade. If I remember right, the
>> driver from atrpms was still far enough behind to cause the ABI 15
>> error, so I tried kmod-nvidia from elrepo. After removing the old
>> nvidia 319 driver, this update pulled in these nvidia libraries:
>>
>> nvidia-x11-drv-340.65-1.el6.elrepo.i686
>> kmod-nvidia-340.65-1.el6.elrepo.i686
>>
>> There is no nvidia kmdl rpm installed now (as was the case before),
>> so I am not sure if this is a problem or not. When I start the
>> desktop, everything seems fine, and apps like Mozilla work, but none
>> of the myth GUIs will start. I get a segmentation fault with both
>> the mythfrontend and mythtv-setup. Even with --verbose, mythfrontend
>> gives me nothing to work with.
>>
>> As a test, I also tried doing the nvidia upgrade using scrpms. With
>> this upgrade, I was forced to move up to
>> kernel-2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.i686, so at least I know this update is
>> pulling in an nvidia-kmdl, unlike kmod. In the end, this upgrade
>> attempt was less successful than the kmod upgrade in that the nvidia
>> driver is never able to load, so the desktop never starts. At the
>> bottom of Xorg.0.log it shows this:
>>
>> [ 20.723] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
>> [ 20.723] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
>> [ 20.723] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
>> [ 20.723] (II) Unloading nvidia
>> [ 20.723] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not
>> exist, 0)
>> [ 20.723] (EE) No drivers available.
>> [ 20.723] (EE) Fatal server error:
>> [ 20.723] (EE) no screens found(EE)
>> [ 20.723] (EE) Please consult the CentOS support at
>> http://wiki.centos.org/Documentation
>>
>> This seems odd since "modprobe nvidia" succeeds. I tried
>> nvidia-xconfig to recreate the xorg.conf, but no go. Of course I am
>> rebooting every time to get a clean start. After many attempts, it
>> looks like kmod-nvidia 340.65 may be my best option.
>>
>> Is anyone aware of an issue with mythtv 0.26 and the nvidia 340.xx
>> driver? Alternatively, if anyone has ideas on how to get the scrpms
>> nvidia driver to work, I am open to trying that again too.
>>
>> I have options, but nothing looks good. Downgrading Xorg seems
>> problematic, so I didn't go there. I suppose I could upgrade myth to
>> version 0.27 and see what happens, but that presents some difficulty
>> on EL6 (although I know that scrpms has compiled both myth 0.27 and
>> the compatible version of Qt). It also triggers multiple myth
>> upgrades for BE-FE compatibility. Another option is to go to EL7, but
>> that requires a decent effort too since there is no good
>> upgrade-in-place from EL6 32-bit to EL7).
>>
>> I apologize in advance if this post is somewhat schizophrenic. I can
>> provide more details if anyone can lend a hand.
>>
>> Larry
>>
> I'm sorry for the delay - I'll have a look and do some testing with my
> el6 frontend I also upgraded a from el6 32bit to 64 as a path to el7
> If you want I'll send you the process.
>
> Cheers
> Stephen
>
> _______________________________________________
> atrpms-users mailing list
> atrpms-users@atrpms.net
> http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
>
I've found the problem and fixed it. The src rpms are built - the
updated nvidia drivers will build over the next hour or so.

Cheers
Stephen

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Re: Nvidia Upgrade Agony [ In reply to ]

promac at gmail

Jan 4, 2015, 11:52 PM

Post #4 of 7 (4841 views)

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Hi,

I need a set of nvidia rpms for an old rhel6 dell notebook with a nvidia
8400.

Since I upgrades to rhel 6.6, the ones I used stopped to work.

Does anyone know what is the appropriate version now?

Also, I have a new le novo notebook running f21. Anyone has experience with
bumblebee and nvidia optimus technology?
Definitively, nouveau did not work with bumblebee ...

By the way, atrpms-rpm-config need to be fixed for f21. The place macros
are kept now has changed,
and the original package is creating rpm names with f21 instead of fc21.
For now, I created a symbolic
link for macros.dist to /etc/rpm.

Thanks.

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 4:10 AM, Stephen Collier <judithc@bigpond.net.au>
wrote:

> On 29/12/2014 4:30 pm, Stephen Collier wrote:
>
>> On 29/12/2014 8:08 am, Larry Kennedy wrote:
>>
>>> I'm running myth 0.26.1-296 on EL6 (2.6.32-431.el6.i686) with a GT210
>>> card and the nvidia 319.32 driver.
>>>
>>> About a week ago, I accidentally took an update to my Xorg server (now I
>>> have xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.15.0-25.el6.centos.i686), and after that I
>>> started getting a driver mismatch error (ABI 15 I seem to recall). Anyway,
>>> I've seen this before, and I believe this means the nvidia 319 driver is at
>>> a lower version than is needed, so I figured all I need is an nvidia
>>> upgrade. If I remember right, the driver from atrpms was still far enough
>>> behind to cause the ABI 15 error, so I tried kmod-nvidia from elrepo.
>>> After removing the old nvidia 319 driver, this update pulled in these
>>> nvidia libraries:
>>>
>>> nvidia-x11-drv-340.65-1.el6.elrepo.i686
>>> kmod-nvidia-340.65-1.el6.elrepo.i686
>>>
>>> There is no nvidia kmdl rpm installed now (as was the case before), so I
>>> am not sure if this is a problem or not. When I start the desktop,
>>> everything seems fine, and apps like Mozilla work, but none of the myth
>>> GUIs will start. I get a segmentation fault with both the mythfrontend and
>>> mythtv-setup. Even with --verbose, mythfrontend gives me nothing to work
>>> with.
>>>
>>> As a test, I also tried doing the nvidia upgrade using scrpms. With
>>> this upgrade, I was forced to move up to kernel-2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.i686,
>>> so at least I know this update is pulling in an nvidia-kmdl, unlike kmod.
>>> In the end, this upgrade attempt was less successful than the kmod upgrade
>>> in that the nvidia driver is never able to load, so the desktop never
>>> starts. At the bottom of Xorg.0.log it shows this:
>>>
>>> [ 20.723] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
>>> [ 20.723] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
>>> [ 20.723] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
>>> [ 20.723] (II) Unloading nvidia
>>> [ 20.723] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist,
>>> 0)
>>> [ 20.723] (EE) No drivers available.
>>> [ 20.723] (EE) Fatal server error:
>>> [ 20.723] (EE) no screens found(EE)
>>> [ 20.723] (EE) Please consult the CentOS support at
>>> http://wiki.centos.org/Documentation
>>>
>>> This seems odd since "modprobe nvidia" succeeds. I tried nvidia-xconfig
>>> to recreate the xorg.conf, but no go. Of course I am rebooting every time
>>> to get a clean start. After many attempts, it looks like kmod-nvidia
>>> 340.65 may be my best option.
>>>
>>> Is anyone aware of an issue with mythtv 0.26 and the nvidia 340.xx
>>> driver? Alternatively, if anyone has ideas on how to get the scrpms nvidia
>>> driver to work, I am open to trying that again too.
>>>
>>> I have options, but nothing looks good. Downgrading Xorg seems
>>> problematic, so I didn't go there. I suppose I could upgrade myth to
>>> version 0.27 and see what happens, but that presents some difficulty on EL6
>>> (although I know that scrpms has compiled both myth 0.27 and the compatible
>>> version of Qt). It also triggers multiple myth upgrades for BE-FE
>>> compatibility. Another option is to go to EL7, but that requires a decent
>>> effort too since there is no good upgrade-in-place from EL6 32-bit to EL7).
>>>
>>> I apologize in advance if this post is somewhat schizophrenic. I can
>>> provide more details if anyone can lend a hand.
>>>
>>> Larry
>>>
>>> I'm sorry for the delay - I'll have a look and do some testing with my
>> el6 frontend I also upgraded a from el6 32bit to 64 as a path to el7 If you
>> want I'll send you the process.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Stephen
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> atrpms-users mailing list
>> atrpms-users@atrpms.net
>> http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
>>
>> I've found the problem and fixed it. The src rpms are built - the
> updated nvidia drivers will build over the next hour or so.
>
>
> Cheers
> Stephen
>
> _______________________________________________
> atrpms-users mailing list
> atrpms-users@atrpms.net
> http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
>

--
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ

Re: Nvidia Upgrade Agony [ In reply to ]

judithc at bigpond

Jan 5, 2015, 4:33 PM

Post #5 of 7 (4829 views)

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On 5/01/2015 6:52 pm, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need a set of nvidia rpms for an old rhel6 dell notebook with a
> nvidia 8400.
>
> Since I upgrades to rhel 6.6, the ones I used stopped to work.
>
> Does anyone know what is the appropriate version now?
>
> Also, I have a new le novo notebook running f21. Anyone has experience
> with bumblebee and nvidia optimus technology?
> Definitively, nouveau did not work with bumblebee ...
>
> By the way, atrpms-rpm-config need to be fixed for f21. The place
> macros are kept now has changed,
> and the original package is creating rpm names with f21 instead of
> fc21. For now, I created a symbolic
> link for macros.dist to /etc/rpm.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 4:10 AM, Stephen Collier
> <judithc@bigpond.net.au <mailto:judithc@bigpond.net.au>> wrote:
>
> On 29/12/2014 4:30 pm, Stephen Collier wrote:
>
> On 29/12/2014 8:08 am, Larry Kennedy wrote:
>
> I'm running myth 0.26.1-296 on EL6 (2.6.32-431.el6.i686)
> with a GT210 card and the nvidia 319.32 driver.
>
> About a week ago, I accidentally took an update to my Xorg
> server (now I have
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.15.0-25.el6.centos.i686), and after
> that I started getting a driver mismatch error (ABI 15 I
> seem to recall). Anyway, I've seen this before, and I
> believe this means the nvidia 319 driver is at a lower
> version than is needed, so I figured all I need is an
> nvidia upgrade. If I remember right, the driver from
> atrpms was still far enough behind to cause the ABI 15
> error, so I tried kmod-nvidia from elrepo. After removing
> the old nvidia 319 driver, this update pulled in these
> nvidia libraries:
>
> nvidia-x11-drv-340.65-1.el6.elrepo.i686
> kmod-nvidia-340.65-1.el6.elrepo.i686
>
> There is no nvidia kmdl rpm installed now (as was the case
> before), so I am not sure if this is a problem or not.
> When I start the desktop, everything seems fine, and apps
> like Mozilla work, but none of the myth GUIs will start.
> I get a segmentation fault with both the mythfrontend and
> mythtv-setup. Even with --verbose, mythfrontend gives me
> nothing to work with.
>
> As a test, I also tried doing the nvidia upgrade using
> scrpms. With this upgrade, I was forced to move up to
> kernel-2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.i686, so at least I know this
> update is pulling in an nvidia-kmdl, unlike kmod. In the
> end, this upgrade attempt was less successful than the
> kmod upgrade in that the nvidia driver is never able to
> load, so the desktop never starts. At the bottom of
> Xorg.0.log it shows this:
>
> [ 20.723] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
> [ 20.723] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
> [ 20.723] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> [ 20.723] (II) Unloading nvidia
> [ 20.723] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module
> does not exist, 0)
> [ 20.723] (EE) No drivers available.
> [ 20.723] (EE) Fatal server error:
> [ 20.723] (EE) no screens found(EE)
> [ 20.723] (EE) Please consult the CentOS support at
> http://wiki.centos.org/Documentation
>
> This seems odd since "modprobe nvidia" succeeds. I tried
> nvidia-xconfig to recreate the xorg.conf, but no go. Of
> course I am rebooting every time to get a clean start.
> After many attempts, it looks like kmod-nvidia 340.65 may
> be my best option.
>
> Is anyone aware of an issue with mythtv 0.26 and the
> nvidia 340.xx driver? Alternatively, if anyone has ideas
> on how to get the scrpms nvidia driver to work, I am open
> to trying that again too.
>
> I have options, but nothing looks good. Downgrading Xorg
> seems problematic, so I didn't go there. I suppose I could
> upgrade myth to version 0.27 and see what happens, but
> that presents some difficulty on EL6 (although I know that
> scrpms has compiled both myth 0.27 and the compatible
> version of Qt). It also triggers multiple myth upgrades
> for BE-FE compatibility. Another option is to go to EL7,
> but that requires a decent effort too since there is no
> good upgrade-in-place from EL6 32-bit to EL7).
>
> I apologize in advance if this post is somewhat
> schizophrenic. I can provide more details if anyone can
> lend a hand.
>
> Larry
>
> I'm sorry for the delay - I'll have a look and do some testing
> with my el6 frontend I also upgraded a from el6 32bit to 64 as
> a path to el7 If you want I'll send you the process.
>
> Cheers
> Stephen
>
> _______________________________________________
> atrpms-users mailing list
> atrpms-users@atrpms.net <mailto:atrpms-users@atrpms.net>
> http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
>
> I've found the problem and fixed it. The src rpms are built - the
> updated nvidia drivers will build over the next hour or so.
>
>
> Cheers
> Stephen
>
> _______________________________________________
> atrpms-users mailing list
> atrpms-users@atrpms.net <mailto:atrpms-users@atrpms.net>
> http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
>
>
>
>
> --
> Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
> LCG - UFRJ
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> atrpms-users mailing list
> atrpms-users@atrpms.net
> http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
Paulo,

According to the nvidia website 340.65 should work with the 8400 GPU

Cheers
Stephen

Re: Nvidia Upgrade Agony [ In reply to ]

promac at gmail

Jan 6, 2015, 1:55 AM

Post #6 of 7 (4823 views)

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Would you have this version already packaged and available somewhere, or at
least, the source rpm?

Thanks.

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Stephen Collier <judithc@bigpond.net.au>
wrote:

> On 5/01/2015 6:52 pm, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I need a set of nvidia rpms for an old rhel6 dell notebook with a nvidia
> 8400.
>
> Since I upgrades to rhel 6.6, the ones I used stopped to work.
>
> Does anyone know what is the appropriate version now?
>
> Also, I have a new le novo notebook running f21. Anyone has experience
> with bumblebee and nvidia optimus technology?
> Definitively, nouveau did not work with bumblebee ...
>
> By the way, atrpms-rpm-config need to be fixed for f21. The place macros
> are kept now has changed,
> and the original package is creating rpm names with f21 instead of fc21.
> For now, I created a symbolic
> link for macros.dist to /etc/rpm.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 4:10 AM, Stephen Collier <judithc@bigpond.net.au>
> wrote:
>
>> On 29/12/2014 4:30 pm, Stephen Collier wrote:
>>
>>> On 29/12/2014 8:08 am, Larry Kennedy wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm running myth 0.26.1-296 on EL6 (2.6.32-431.el6.i686) with a GT210
>>>> card and the nvidia 319.32 driver.
>>>>
>>>> About a week ago, I accidentally took an update to my Xorg server (now
>>>> I have xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.15.0-25.el6.centos.i686), and after that I
>>>> started getting a driver mismatch error (ABI 15 I seem to recall). Anyway,
>>>> I've seen this before, and I believe this means the nvidia 319 driver is at
>>>> a lower version than is needed, so I figured all I need is an nvidia
>>>> upgrade. If I remember right, the driver from atrpms was still far enough
>>>> behind to cause the ABI 15 error, so I tried kmod-nvidia from elrepo.
>>>> After removing the old nvidia 319 driver, this update pulled in these
>>>> nvidia libraries:
>>>>
>>>> nvidia-x11-drv-340.65-1.el6.elrepo.i686
>>>> kmod-nvidia-340.65-1.el6.elrepo.i686
>>>>
>>>> There is no nvidia kmdl rpm installed now (as was the case before), so
>>>> I am not sure if this is a problem or not. When I start the desktop,
>>>> everything seems fine, and apps like Mozilla work, but none of the myth
>>>> GUIs will start. I get a segmentation fault with both the mythfrontend and
>>>> mythtv-setup. Even with --verbose, mythfrontend gives me nothing to work
>>>> with.
>>>>
>>>> As a test, I also tried doing the nvidia upgrade using scrpms. With
>>>> this upgrade, I was forced to move up to kernel-2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.i686, so
>>>> at least I know this update is pulling in an nvidia-kmdl, unlike kmod. In
>>>> the end, this upgrade attempt was less successful than the kmod upgrade in
>>>> that the nvidia driver is never able to load, so the desktop never starts.
>>>> At the bottom of Xorg.0.log it shows this:
>>>>
>>>> [ 20.723] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
>>>> [ 20.723] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
>>>> [ 20.723] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
>>>> [ 20.723] (II) Unloading nvidia
>>>> [ 20.723] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not
>>>> exist, 0)
>>>> [ 20.723] (EE) No drivers available.
>>>> [ 20.723] (EE) Fatal server error:
>>>> [ 20.723] (EE) no screens found(EE)
>>>> [ 20.723] (EE) Please consult the CentOS support at
>>>> http://wiki.centos.org/Documentation
>>>>
>>>> This seems odd since "modprobe nvidia" succeeds. I tried
>>>> nvidia-xconfig to recreate the xorg.conf, but no go. Of course I am
>>>> rebooting every time to get a clean start. After many attempts, it looks
>>>> like kmod-nvidia 340.65 may be my best option.
>>>>
>>>> Is anyone aware of an issue with mythtv 0.26 and the nvidia 340.xx
>>>> driver? Alternatively, if anyone has ideas on how to get the scrpms nvidia
>>>> driver to work, I am open to trying that again too.
>>>>
>>>> I have options, but nothing looks good. Downgrading Xorg seems
>>>> problematic, so I didn't go there. I suppose I could upgrade myth to
>>>> version 0.27 and see what happens, but that presents some difficulty on EL6
>>>> (although I know that scrpms has compiled both myth 0.27 and the compatible
>>>> version of Qt). It also triggers multiple myth upgrades for BE-FE
>>>> compatibility. Another option is to go to EL7, but that requires a decent
>>>> effort too since there is no good upgrade-in-place from EL6 32-bit to EL7).
>>>>
>>>> I apologize in advance if this post is somewhat schizophrenic. I can
>>>> provide more details if anyone can lend a hand.
>>>>
>>>> Larry
>>>>
>>>> I'm sorry for the delay - I'll have a look and do some testing with my
>>> el6 frontend I also upgraded a from el6 32bit to 64 as a path to el7 If you
>>> want I'll send you the process.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Stephen
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> atrpms-users mailing list
>>> atrpms-users@atrpms.net
>>> http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
>>>
>>> I've found the problem and fixed it. The src rpms are built - the
>> updated nvidia drivers will build over the next hour or so.
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Stephen
>>
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>> atrpms-users@atrpms.net
>> http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
> LCG - UFRJ
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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>
> Paulo,
>
> According to the nvidia website 340.65 should work with the 8400 GPU
>
> Cheers
> Stephen
>
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LCG - UFRJ

Re: Nvidia Upgrade Agony [ In reply to ]

judithc at bigpond

Jan 6, 2015, 10:38 PM

Post #7 of 7 (4829 views)

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On 6/01/2015 8:55 PM, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> Would you have this version already packaged and available somewhere,
> or at least, the source rpm?
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Stephen Collier
> <judithc@bigpond.net.au <mailto:judithc@bigpond.net.au>> wrote:
>
> On 5/01/2015 6:52 pm, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need a set of nvidia rpms for an old rhel6 dell notebook with a
>> nvidia 8400.
>>
>> Since I upgrades to rhel 6.6, the ones I used stopped to work.
>>
>> Does anyone know what is the appropriate version now?
>>
>> Also, I have a new le novo notebook running f21. Anyone has
>> experience with bumblebee and nvidia optimus technology?
>> Definitively, nouveau did not work with bumblebee ...
>>
>> By the way, atrpms-rpm-config need to be fixed for f21. The place
>> macros are kept now has changed,
>> and the original package is creating rpm names with f21 instead
>> of fc21. For now, I created a symbolic
>> link for macros.dist to /etc/rpm.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 4:10 AM, Stephen Collier
>> <judithc@bigpond.net.au <mailto:judithc@bigpond.net.au>> wrote:
>>
>> On 29/12/2014 4:30 pm, Stephen Collier wrote:
>>
>> On 29/12/2014 8:08 am, Larry Kennedy wrote:
>>
>> I'm running myth 0.26.1-296 on EL6
>> (2.6.32-431.el6.i686) with a GT210 card and the
>> nvidia 319.32 driver.
>>
>> About a week ago, I accidentally took an update to my
>> Xorg server (now I have
>> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.15.0-25.el6.centos.i686), and
>> after that I started getting a driver mismatch error
>> (ABI 15 I seem to recall). Anyway, I've seen this
>> before, and I believe this means the nvidia 319
>> driver is at a lower version than is needed, so I
>> figured all I need is an nvidia upgrade. If I
>> remember right, the driver from atrpms was still far
>> enough behind to cause the ABI 15 error, so I tried
>> kmod-nvidia from elrepo. After removing the old
>> nvidia 319 driver, this update pulled in these nvidia
>> libraries:
>>
>> nvidia-x11-drv-340.65-1.el6.elrepo.i686
>> kmod-nvidia-340.65-1.el6.elrepo.i686
>>
>> There is no nvidia kmdl rpm installed now (as was the
>> case before), so I am not sure if this is a problem
>> or not. When I start the desktop, everything seems
>> fine, and apps like Mozilla work, but none of the
>> myth GUIs will start. I get a segmentation fault
>> with both the mythfrontend and mythtv-setup. Even
>> with --verbose, mythfrontend gives me nothing to work
>> with.
>>
>> As a test, I also tried doing the nvidia upgrade
>> using scrpms. With this upgrade, I was forced to
>> move up to kernel-2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.i686, so at
>> least I know this update is pulling in an
>> nvidia-kmdl, unlike kmod. In the end, this upgrade
>> attempt was less successful than the kmod upgrade in
>> that the nvidia driver is never able to load, so the
>> desktop never starts. At the bottom of Xorg.0.log it
>> shows this:
>>
>> [ 20.723] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
>> [ 20.723] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
>> [ 20.723] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
>> [ 20.723] (II) Unloading nvidia
>> [ 20.723] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia"
>> (module does not exist, 0)
>> [ 20.723] (EE) No drivers available.
>> [ 20.723] (EE) Fatal server error:
>> [ 20.723] (EE) no screens found(EE)
>> [ 20.723] (EE) Please consult the CentOS support
>> at http://wiki.centos.org/Documentation
>>
>> This seems odd since "modprobe nvidia" succeeds. I
>> tried nvidia-xconfig to recreate the xorg.conf, but
>> no go. Of course I am rebooting every time to get a
>> clean start. After many attempts, it looks like
>> kmod-nvidia 340.65 may be my best option.
>>
>> Is anyone aware of an issue with mythtv 0.26 and the
>> nvidia 340.xx driver? Alternatively, if anyone has
>> ideas on how to get the scrpms nvidia driver to work,
>> I am open to trying that again too.
>>
>> I have options, but nothing looks good. Downgrading
>> Xorg seems problematic, so I didn't go there. I
>> suppose I could upgrade myth to version 0.27 and see
>> what happens, but that presents some difficulty on
>> EL6 (although I know that scrpms has compiled both
>> myth 0.27 and the compatible version of Qt). It also
>> triggers multiple myth upgrades for BE-FE
>> compatibility. Another option is to go to EL7, but
>> that requires a decent effort too since there is no
>> good upgrade-in-place from EL6 32-bit to EL7).
>>
>> I apologize in advance if this post is somewhat
>> schizophrenic. I can provide more details if anyone
>> can lend a hand.
>>
>> Larry
>>
>> I'm sorry for the delay - I'll have a look and do some
>> testing with my el6 frontend I also upgraded a from el6
>> 32bit to 64 as a path to el7 If you want I'll send you
>> the process.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Stephen
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> atrpms-users mailing list
>> atrpms-users@atrpms.net <mailto:atrpms-users@atrpms.net>
>> http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
>>
>> I've found the problem and fixed it. The src rpms are built -
>> the updated nvidia drivers will build over the next hour or so.
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Stephen
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> atrpms-users mailing list
>> atrpms-users@atrpms.net <mailto:atrpms-users@atrpms.net>
>> http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
>> LCG - UFRJ
>>
>>
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>> atrpms-users@atrpms.net <mailto:atrpms-users@atrpms.net>
>> http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
> Paulo,
>
> According to the nvidia website 340.65 should work with the 8400 GPU
>
> Cheers
> Stephen
>
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> http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
>
>
>
>
> --
> Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
> LCG - UFRJ
>
>
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Yes they are at scrpms.net/pub . The kmdls and mythtv files are updated
on an automatic process for both kernel and nvidia updates. There is
also an scrpms repo rpm.

Cheers
Stephen