Killing Nouveau
I'm trying to install nvidia 7 series drivers on an older x86_64 box running centos 6.3. Problem is that my nvidia's installer is failing to kill nouveau.
I booted into runlevel 3, and when I ran the nvidia installer it generated a blacklist nouveau modprobe but said modprobe was already running. I restarted and tried blacklisting nouveau in /boot/grub/menu.lst for my default kernel (0). After that, when I restarted I got a system warning saying a file was not found and I had to boot from an earlier kernel... Any advice on why I'm getting that warning, or why Nouveau won't just go away? I gave up on trying to put nvidia drivers on my computer a while back, but I'm giving it a second whack now as I really want to get my old computer set up as a HTPC. |
You may need to uninstall the nouveau driver if it is installed. If not then you may recompile the kernel to exclude nouveau. Since you have proprietary nvidia module you may not need the nouveau anymore: deinstall it, don't modprobe it.
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If you mean the 71.XX series drivers for Vanta/Riva/TNT/Geforce/Geforce3 cards then stop worring about it. 71.XX series drives will not work with centOS 6.3. I'm not aware of any distro with current support that will work with the 71.XX drivers.
Even if you did get the 71.XX series drivers installed, it will make no real difference to the video playback capabilities. |
cascade9: I should clarify--drivers for a GeForce 7000 series. I believe the driver is 304.64 now.
malekmustaq: I'm going to pre-qualify this question by reminding you that this is a question in the rookie section. With that said, can I just uninstall the graphics driver and centos can still boot on runlevel 3? Or will that disable my adapter entirely? That would be nice since nvidia and and nouveau drivers won't play nice, and apparently cannot coexist. |
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I really wanted to help but since you are not running Slackware my experience might not apply to your case. Good luck. |
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some 7000 series stuff can have issues with newer nVida installers. I'm sure the problem has happened with the 7025/7050/7100/7150 onboard chipset, adn I'm pretty sure some of the lower level stuff has had issues as well. Probably part of why nVidia dropping the 6XXX and 7XXX series cards on ther next driver seires after 304. The nVidia drivers might help a little, but it wont help that much. If you had a 8XXX series card or newer that supported VDPAU then it does make a huge diference in palyablity, at least for supported file types. Quote:
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Do you have anything apart from rumour about mircosoft owning 'substantial stock' of ATI? The did do business together, particularly with the Xbox 360. Someones probably just blown that out of proportion. Quote:
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for nvidia cards OLDER than the gforce2 ( the 96. driver ) and this includs the even OLDER 71 driver
they DO NOT work on CentOS6 x11 is TOO NEW you CAN use the antique 71 driver on CentOS 5.8 but for that card and cent6 you are locked into the Nouveau driver or install CentOS5 I have an old Gforce2 box from 2001 running SL6.3 the 96 driver is DEAD on it dose not work now you could DOWNGRADE x11 to the older version in cent5 ??? but that will be a LOT of work and might not even be doable |
Thanks again for the info.
John: This GeForce 7600 (from about 2006...). Old, but not GeForce2 old. Cascade: it's not that I'm trying to optimize/tweak performance, but the Nouveau drivers have problems playing video, and inhibit some flash sites and some GUIs. Since I'm setting this up as an HTPC, that won't work. I'm thinking that I might just want to abandon Centos in favor of Ubuntu for usability, and because I know plenty of people use it for HTPCs. I think Ubuntu will cover whatever limited networking abilities I might require (SSH and network controls, but not serving any web-content.) Thoughts? |
A 7000 card dose not use the antique 71 driver
the 71 driver was for http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-d...15-driver.html gf3 ,tnt,riva a GF 7600 will use the current 304 BUT there is a bug in the 300 & 304 dealing with keeping a custom GAMA setting use the Kmod-nvidia driver in the Cent6 repos Code:
su - and will auto blacklist the nouvaue and will rebuild the boot image MANDATORY AND 100% REQUIRED !!!! when switching from the open to the closed driver and NO f-ing around with running Code:
su - ( and gcc,autotools, and the kernel source) and MANUALLY rebuilding the boot image |
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Thanks John VV--I'll give that a shot tomorrow. Glad to know that this is a known issue (bug for 300 and 304 drivers, and better yet, that it's easily fixed.
Now, the bickering about ATI, AMD, nVidia and Intel---how does that help solve my problem? :P |
Ugh. un-blacklisted nouveau drivers, and removed modprobe the installer put in, but I'm still getting an error 15. I had to reboot from an older, backup build, and couldn't figure out why I'm getting that error.
I'm sure there's a way to fix it, but it's definitely beyond my skill. Thanks all for the advice, but I'm giving up and moving to Ubuntu, and I just ordered a GeForce 8000 for the VDPAU . I've come to terms with the fact that I'm not yet knowledgeable enough to fix the myriad of problems that keep popping up, so it makes more sense to take the reliable path more frequently taken. Thanks again to everyone for helping me out though! |
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what exactly is it you are doing the above stats Quote:
you only remove the black list if you are switching BACK to the nouveau from using the nvidia.run and then you would also HAVE to rebuild the boot image to use the nouveau driver instead of the nvidia driver from the top Quote:
nvidia just but out a bug fix "310" ??? i do not know ( am not using it yet) but the 7000 cards are supported by the kmod-nvidia in the CentOS "ELrepo" repos -- to install the elrepo see: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories and using the kmod-nvidia there is NO NEED to mess around with any blacklisting no need to edit modeprobe no need to manually rebuild the boot image the rpm takes care of this after the elrepo is installed run Code:
yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-nvidia nvidia-x11-drv then reboot PS. -- this is why using the nvidia.run driver is known as " the hard way" even though it is not all that hard |
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Hopefully you got a 8XXX card which supports VDPAU (not all the 8XXX cards do). I would have got something newer, the 'better' 8XXX cards are hard to find now, the 8400 GS is horrible. Quote:
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