[ale] CentOS 7 and NVIDIA

[Jim Kinney]

An F19 build is scheduled for Monday. If that flops, I'll slap 6.5 on and
move to the next issue.
On Jul 25, 2014 10:08 PM, "Michael B. Trausch" <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> On 07/25/2014 05:28 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
>> Don't mix 'em yet.
>>
>> for the efficient (i.e. busy) admin, RPMFusion is not yet online with v7.
>> So no NVIDIA modules to run a k4000 or a Tesla GPU.
>>
>> The official Nvidia installer pukes during the build with a failed kernel
>> test in autoconf and suggests a make oldconfig && make prepare
>>
>> which also fails in the 3.10.0-123.4.4 kernel tree with a failed call to
>> arch/x86/syscall/syscall_32.tbl
>>
>> There is_no_  32 bit support at all in RHEL7. So what's with a 32-bit sys
>> lookup table?
>>
>> Running kernel works fine but building new stuff fails instantly. ugh.
>>
> You can install 32-bit headers to make the build happy, and GCC can build
> the 32-bit module. That said, you'd have to not use nVidia's script to do
> it, but do it by hand. You can probably patch it to just avoid it as
> well—most problems I've had building nvidia software on "unsupported"
> environments often amounted to patching 10 or less lines to get it to
> correctly and successfully build.
>
> Having now learned The Way of Red Hat, I also spend much less time
> building and deploying binaries than I used to. Build once, write spec
> file, build again with split packages, upload to repo, and just yum install
> everywhere.
>
> And, as long as I manage 100% of the mirrors and repositories, yum never,
> ever breaks! It's all about finding the tricks!
>
> (Sorry, though, I can't help with nvidia... I don't think I have any more
> nvidia hardware left. I won't use a graphics display unless it's got
> KMS-enabled drivers in-tree that perform well... and I don't do anything
> that requires massive vector processing since most of my work is
> programming or data manipulation.)
>
> You might try doing the build on a F19 or F20 system and simply copying
> the 64-bit modules to the R7/C7 system. That might actually work, since
> they're similar enough.
>
> — Mike
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