Sam Beam wrote:
Hi guys - brand new 5.1 install here and quite happy - but...
The nv driver did not work at all for me, fritzy stripes and dots. This is a
GeForce 7300 LE which was working happily dual-head under FC6 with the livna
nvidia RPMs
So I looked around and it seemed like the ATRpms repo via yum was the best
option for CentOS. This is what I installed, it worked great with the
xorg.conf from the old system.
But then I did a 'yum update' to the system and got a new kernel from
centosplus (?).
Now the nvidia module won't load. It's not happy with the new kernel. I am at
a loss as to how to make it happy?
what is the best way to install the closed-source drivers? direct from nvidia?
recomplile them? Is there some gap between updates kernel and the atrpms
modules?
Hi Sam,
I would recommend the nvidia driver on RPMForge as it's a dkms-based
driver, meaning that it gets automatically rebuilt upon a kernel upgrade.
You'd need to enable the RPMForge repo, see here:
http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories
and then install dkms and the nvidia driver for your card
yum install dkms nvidia-x11-drv
Check that the dkms_autoinstaller service is set to run at the
appropriate run levels and you should be good to go (you may need to
first uninstall the existing ATRpms driver package). Oh - you'll
probably also need the devel stuff present on your system such as
kernel-headers, kernel-devel and gcc etc for the driver to compile.
Hope that helps.
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