On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:54:09PM -0400, 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? You forgot to install yum-plugin-kmdl, so yum would install the proper kmlds for any new kernel. > 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? > > and in advance I am SORRY if this has been beat to death. I know ~75% of the > traffic on the Fedora list was about nvidia woes and flames. Lame, but the > DRI does work well on these and my daughter likes to play games. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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