NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 on RHEL 7

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The server has NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 video card that has 1 DVI port and 2 DP (DisplayPort) ports.
When trying to connect to an external monitor, no signal was detected.

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/root%find /sys/devices -name "edid"
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:03:00.0/drm/card0/card0-DP-1/edid
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:03:00.0/drm/card0/card0-DP-2/edid
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:03:00.0/drm/card0/card0-DVI-I-1/edid

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/root%lspci -k | grep -iEA5 'nvidia|display|vga|3d|display'
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G94GL [Quadro FX 1800] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device 062c
        Kernel driver in use: nouveau
        Kernel modules: nouveau
05:00.0 SCSI storage controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS1068E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 08)
        Subsystem: Dell SAS 6/iR Integrated Workstations RAID Controller
        Kernel driver in use: mptsas

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INSTALLING NVIDIA DRIVERS ON RHEL OR CENTOS 7

hsiao.net 3.10.0-1127.13.1.el7.x86_64

Edit /etc/default/grub. Append the following to “GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX”

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rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0

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/root%grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-1127.13.1.el7.x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-1127.13.1.el7.x86_64.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7.x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7.x86_64.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-acac49b8c0944ac189fdf455a5e7d7c0
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-acac49b8c0944ac189fdf455a5e7d7c0.img
done

NVIDIA FX 1800 uses "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.108.run". When trying to run

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sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.108.run

encountered an issue. Can't find /lib/modules/3.10.0-1127.13.1.el7.x86_64/build.
Checking further, found it is a symbolic link to

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lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     44 Jun 23 18:59 build_20200623 -> /usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-1127.13.1.el7.x86_64

After rebuilding kernel, it had become /usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64. Notice, it has changed from 13 to 19 for some reason even though the kernel still shows 13.

Moved the old build to a build_20200623 and created a new build point to /usr/src/kernels/3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64.

Re-run "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.108.run" and it completed it.

Did another reboot and I was able to use NVIDIA's DP port to connect via the DP to HDMI adapter to TCL TV's HDMI 2.

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Find this link to install NVIDIA driver on RHEL / Centos 8:

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install- ... n-centos-8

Here is the link from NVIDIA:

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-insta ... ort-matrix