How Can I make the Quadro M1200 Mobile works on Dell Precision 5520 under Centos/RHEL 7.5

Graphics / Linux Linux
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Hey, All:
I have a Dell Precision 5520 which have an extra Quadro M1200M card (and what is that?) and I’ve install Centos 7.5 on it to try some cuda development. But I have tried my best while failed to make the nvidia card works on that OS. the pre-installed Ubuntu 16.04 of DELL sucks and they provided a “dell-nvidia-367.44-rhel_7.3.el7.x86_64” on DELL driver downloading site which can not worked at all on 7.5. I have tried to downloading driver on Nvidia website with “Quadro Notebook M1200”, “NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.77.run” and installed by blacklist the nouveau, it failed also.

The Informations are:
1) graphical devices:

[marshall@bogon ~]$ lspci | egrep 'VGA|3D'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics P630 (rev 04)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107GLM [Quadro M1200 Mobile] (rev a2)

2) kernel information:

[marshall@bogon ~]$ uname -a
Linux bogon 3.10.0-862.9.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 16 16:29:36 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

3) rhel version:

[marshall@bogon ~]$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version:	:core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch:cxx-4.1-amd64:cxx-4.1-noarch:desktop-4.1-amd64:desktop-4.1-noarch:printing-4.1-amd64:printing-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID:	CentOS
Description:	CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core) 
Release:	7.5.1804
Codename:	Core

4) blacklist:

[marshall@bogon ~]$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf 
# generated by nvidia-installer
blacklist nouveau
blacklist lbm-nouveau
#options nouveau modeset=0
alias nouveau off
alias lbm-nouveau off

 5) nvidia driver on cuda repo:

[marshall@bogon ~]$ sudo dnf list xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-devel.x86_64
Last metadata expiration check: 3:00:31 ago on Fri 27 Jul 2018 03:37:17 PM CST.
Available Packages
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-devel.x86_64               1:396.37-1.el7               cuda

 what is this? the LTS *.run download from nvidia driver site is "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.77.run", the version is different, but none of this works.

 6) my defult grub setting:

[marshall@bogon ~]$ cat /etc/default/grub 
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="gfxterm"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto rd.lvm.lv=centos/root rd.lvm.lv=centos/swap video=eDP-1:1920x1080@60 rdblacklist=nouveau rhgb quiet"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1080,1024x768,640x480

 7) the default xorg on Centos 7.5 is strange, the configure file seems like a little evil mouse which want to go everywhere:

[marshall@bogon ~]$ ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
00-keyboard.conf

[marshall@bogon ~]$ ls /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/
10-evdev.conf   50-synaptics.conf  50-wacom.conf
10-quirks.conf  50-vmmouse.conf

 when I finished to install nvidia driver (by .run file), it add an nvidia-output-class.conf under /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and startx will fail with "(EE) can not load nouveau" (I have blacklist it!!!)
 After I use "nvidia-xconfig -a", it will generate a xorg.conf under /etc/X11/, which provide "(EE) can not find Monitor, (EE) can not find device"

 So my question is: How can I make it work with cuda. this problem takes me about a week and I hope someone who can kindly help me with that.
 Thanks alot again.
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It’s an Optimus laptop which needs extra config. Ubuntu does that, Centos not. See this post for help, it also has a link to a user created script that creates the necessary config:
[url]https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1022670/linux/official-driver-384-59-with-geforce-1050m-doesn-t-work-on-opensuse-tumbleweed-kde/post/5203910/#5203910[/url]

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Thanks Alot, I’ve tryed install the .run file first, then mannually write a new xorg.conf file under /etc/X11 then add optimus.desktop as your said, it works, thanks alot then.