On Oct 18, 2006, at 12:49, Jay Leafey wrote:
For anything that does not require 3D, tho, the nv driver seems to work just fine.
Well, we don't use 3D, but we ended up using the nvidia driver so we could drive the LCD monitor at its native resolution and frequency (1600x1200 @ 60Hz). I first tried using the onboard video chip (Intel 9XX) on our workstations, but it couldn't drive 1600x1200 at the right frequency. I then purchased some inexpensive nVidia GeForce 6200 cards, but I had to install the nVidia driver for them to work properly at 1600x1200 using the DVI connector (I forgot exactly what the problem was). But installing the nVidia driver solved all the problems.
The only issue is that I have to re-install the driver whenever there is a new kernel. I haven't dug deep enough to figure out how to install the driver in a newly installed but not yet running kernel. I usually just manually change the runlevel to 3 at boot time, install the driver, and then switch to runlevel 5. But that requires physical access to each workstation. Since there is a new kernel waiting to be installed by yum at the moment, maybe I will take the time to figure out how to do this now. I did manage to hijack the firstboot mechanism, so that after I kickstart a system it automatically installs the driver before going to runlevel 5.
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