Following instructions from here NVIDIA Driver Installation Quickstart Guide :: NVIDIA Tesla Documentation recommended from Install NVIDIA drivers on Linux instances - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud “Option 2: Public NVIDIA drivers”
The instructions on the nvidia website all the way through sudo yum install -y nvidia-driver-latest-dkms works and installs successfully but get the following error running nvidia-smi.
$ nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
Running sudo dkms install nvidia/545.23.06
Generates
Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping...
Building module:
cleaning build area...
'make' -j2 module SYSSRC=/lib/modules/5.10.197-186.748.amzn2.x86_64/build IGNORE_XEN_PRESENCE=1 IGNORE_PREEMPT_RT_PRESENCE=1 IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1...........(bad exit status: 2)
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.10.197-186.748.amzn2.x86_64 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/545.23.06/build/make.log for more information.
The error file above is like 12k lines long but the bottom ~200 lines or so show
./include/asm-generic/bug.h:94:19: note: in expansion of macro ‘__WARN_FLAGS’
#define __WARN() __WARN_FLAGS(BUGFLAG_TAINT(TAINT_WARN))
^~~~~~~~~~~~
./include/asm-generic/bug.h:121:3: note: in expansion of macro ‘__WARN’
__WARN(); \
^~~~~~
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/545.23.06/build/nvidia/nv.c:4923:5: note: in expansion of macro ‘WARN_ON’
WARN_ON(rm_set_external_kernel_client_count(sp, NV_STATE_PTR(nvl), NV_FALSE) != NV_OK);
^~~~~~~
In file included from <command-line>:0:0:
././include/linux/compiler_types.h:245:24: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code [-Wdeclaration-after-statement]
#define asm_inline asm __inline
^
./arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h:36:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘asm_inline’
asm_inline volatile("1:\t" ins "\n" \
^~~~~~~~~~
./arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h:88:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘_BUG_FLAGS’
_BUG_FLAGS(ASM_UD2, BUGFLAG_WARNING|(flags)); \
^~~~~~~~~~
./include/asm-generic/bug.h:94:19: note: in expansion of macro ‘__WARN_FLAGS’
#define __WARN() __WARN_FLAGS(BUGFLAG_TAINT(TAINT_WARN))
^~~~~~~~~~~~
./include/asm-generic/bug.h:121:3: note: in expansion of macro ‘__WARN’
__WARN(); \
^~~~~~
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/545.23.06/build/nvidia/nv.c:4923:5: note: in expansion of macro ‘WARN_ON’
WARN_ON(rm_set_external_kernel_client_count(sp, NV_STATE_PTR(nvl), NV_FALSE) != NV_OK);
^~~~~~~
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/545.23.06/build/nvidia/nv.c: In function ‘nv_s2idle_pm_configured’:
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/545.23.06/build/nvidia/nv.c:5531:23: error: ‘IOPRIO_DEFAULT’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘LMI_DEFAULT’?
kiocb.ki_ioprio = IOPRIO_DEFAULT;
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
LMI_DEFAULT
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/545.23.06/build/nvidia/nv.c:5531:23: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[5]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/545.23.06/build/nvidia/nv.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/545.23.06/build] Error 2
make[3]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[2]: *** [__sub-make] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/5.10.197-186.748.amzn2.x86_64'
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/5.10.197-186.748.amzn2.x86_64'
make: *** [modules] Error 2
Any suggestions on how to fix?