>-----Original Message----- >From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf >Of Nicolas Thierry-Mieg >Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:32 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: Nvidia driver on CentOS 5.3 > >Sorin Srbu wrote: >> On a related sidetrack; is there any difference between the proprietary >> Nvidia-drivers and the ones from eg rpmforge? Specifically, we use the >> proprietary Nvidia drivers on our dozen or so course computers because they >> support stereo-3D. When our former *nix-admin set this up years ago, there >> weren't anything else to use than the proprietary drivers. Hence my question. > >the rpmforge driver *is* the proprietary nvidia driver. It's just nicely >packaged in an rpm, with dkms for rebuilding when you get a new kernel. >It's also not the latest version, which may or may not be a problem for >you. It's working well enough for a lot of people, but YMMV. Thx, I'm trouble-shooting now. Dkms autoinstaller something-or-other didn't go down too well. Looks promising though. 8-) -- /Sorin
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