Re: Nvidia driver on CentOS 5.3 Solved

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf
>Of Sorin Srbu
>Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:52 PM
>To: 'CentOS mailing list'
>Subject: Re:  Nvidia driver on CentOS 5.3
>
>>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-)

It worked! Turns out I had some other Nvidia-driver already installed.
Running "yum reinstall Nvidia-x11-drv" and "yum install kernel*" fixed it.
Now /etc/X11/xorg.conf says it's using driver "nvidia" instead of "nv".

Thanks for the help guys!

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