NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 on RHEL 7
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 2:37 am
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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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”
NVIDIA FX 1800 uses "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.108.run". When trying to 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
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.
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
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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/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
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sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.108.run
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
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.