I had some trouble setting up dual monitors on centos with an nvidia
card. I managed to track stuff down, so I thought I'd make it public
on the list. I have an nvidia quadro nvs 290 in a Dell, recently
installed centos5. Same stuff should apply for other nvidia cards.
I needed nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64. It is available from rpmforge.
Installing rpmforge is described on this
page(http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge).
If you just open the display panel and choose dual monitor settings and
restart X, X can't get started and gives error messages. When I
restore the old /etc/X112/xorg.conf, it comes back to life, without
dual monitors of course.
Here are the actual commands I entered as root:
yum install yum-priorities
echo 'priority=1' >> /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
echo 'priority=1' >> /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo
echo 'priority=2' >> /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
echo 'priority=2' >> /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo
echo 'priority=3' >> /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-i386.repo
echo 'priority=3' >> /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free-updates.repo
echo 'priority=3' >> /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo
echo 'priority=3' >> /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.repo
echo 'priority=3' >> /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo
wget http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/RPMS.dag/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
yum --localinstall rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
yum localinstall rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
yum check-update
yum search nvidia
yum install nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64
I originally googled around for a howto, it took me much more effort
than it should to find http://wiki.centos.org. Wonder if there is a
way to get google to give better results?
Found someone with similar problems, someone suggested installing the
right thing but neglected to point out where it comes from. So I was
getting this:
sudo yum search *nvidia*
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
* epel: mirror.its.uidaho.edu
* rpmfusion-free-updates-testing: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
* rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
* extras: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
* rpmfusion-free-updates: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
* updates: repos.lax-noc.com
* base: mirrors.xmission.com
* addons: repos.lax-noc.com
Warning: No matches found for: *nvidia*
No Matches found
Which versions of RH or FC correspond reasonably well to
my version of centos?
uname -a
Linux 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 #1 SMP Thu May 7 10:35:59 EDT 2009 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
thanks,
Dave
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