Installation of drivers 450.66/460.67/470.94 fails, CentOS 7, RTX 3060 mobile

Graphics / Linux Linux
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Hello

I already reviewed this forum and saw couple of similar problems but sadly no solution helped me so far, thus I would like to ask for help.

I can not install driver on fresh installation of CentOS 7. I’ve tried various versions with various installation options: 450.66, 460.67, 470.94 with very similar results like this:

ERROR: Unable to load the 'nvidia-drm' kernel module.
ERROR: Installation has failed.  Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details.  You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems

I also tried kmod-nvidia from elrepo - resulted as black screen at loading OS. I’ve blacklisted nouveau driver:

[root@localhost log]# lshw -numeric -C display
  *-display UNCLAIMED       
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: NVIDIA Corporation [10DE:2520]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation [10DE]
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: iomemory:600-5ff iomemory:620-61f memory:5d000000-5dffffff memory:6000000000-61ffffffff memory:6200000000-6201ffffff ioport:4000(size=128) memory:5e080000-5e0fffff
  *-display UNCLAIMED
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Intel Corporation [8086:9A60]
       vendor: Intel Corporation [8086]
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 01
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: iomemory:620-61f iomemory:400-3ff memory:6202000000-6202ffffff memory:4000000000-400fffffff ioport:5000(size=64)

I’ve tried to investigate and found disturbing messages in system logs:

Jan  7 13:44:12 localhost kernel: NVRM: Can't find an IRQ for your NVIDIA card!
Jan  7 13:44:12 localhost kernel: NVRM: Please check your BIOS settings.
Jan  7 13:44:12 localhost kernel: NVRM: [Plug & Play OS] should be set to NO
Jan  7 13:44:12 localhost kernel: NVRM: [Assign IRQ to VGA] should be set to YES 
Jan  7 13:44:12 localhost kernel: nvidia: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -1
Jan  7 13:44:12 localhost kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s).
Jan  7 13:44:12 localhost kernel: NVRM: None of the NVIDIA devices were initialized.

but I do not have such options (Plug & Play OS/Assign IRQ to VGA) in my BIOS. My Acer Nitro (AN517-54-718T) laptop has GeForce RTX3060. nvidia-bug-report in attachment.

I will appreciate your help!

Regards
Marcin
nvidia-bug-report.log (284.9 KB)

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The nvidia gpu is not the only device not working. The intel igpu, the nvme controller, most of acpi and possibly more. The reason is simply that the centos 7 kernel is too old to support your hardware.

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thanks, I was expecting a similar sentence after the trip I went through to get the network card working. Do you think a similar situation applies to centos 8?

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Since the support for the "normal"centos 8 is ending soon iirc, you can only use centos stream, which has a current kernel or use Alma/RockyLinux as new RHEL8 clones.