on 4-6-2009 5:55 AM Sorin Srbu spake the following: > I got the DKMS-system working and now have the Nvidia-drivers v173.08 > installed (using rpmforge as suggested previously). Unfortunately this > particular driver version gives me screen artifacts so as to make the screen > more or less unreadable. > > Nvidia's proprietary drivers are now up to v180.44 and this version is fine > with my test system. > > I really like the DKMS-system, as it enables me to keep kernel and > gfx-drivers up-to-date on our course-lab computers doing 3D-molecular > modeling. However if I can't make use of newer, and better, drivers this > whole thing is borked for me... 8-/ > > My question is who updates those drivers, as the v173.08 Nvidia drivers are > now almost a year old? Would there be any other good repo with more current > drivers suitable for use with DKMS and CentOS? > The repos I found are tagged with PCLinux, Mandriva and Ubuntu to name a few. > I'm not quite sure these rpms would work with CentOS and the dkms install > there. > > Any hints appreciated. Thanks. > You could always try and make a newer version yourself using the old one as a template. Here is some help; http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6896 http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/1q04-ler.pdf http://linux.dell.com/dkms/dkms-ols2004.pdf
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