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. -- BW, Sorin ----------------------------------------------------------- # Sorin Srbu [Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >3 signals> GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem, Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se ----------------------------------------------------------- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # A child of five could understand this! Fetch me a child of five. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5106 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090406/51af893d/attachment-0002.bin>
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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090408/3595372e/attachment-0002.sig>
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:> on 4-6-2009 5:55 AM Sorin Srbu spake the following:>> 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?>> Any hints appreciated. Thanks.You might want to ask for a newer version on the rpmforge mailing list: http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/suggest> You could always try and make a newer version yourself using the old one as a > template. Here is some help;There is a CentOS wiki how to build kernel modules (see section 2 for DKMS): http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules Akemi
Sorin Srbu wrote:>> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf >> Of Scott Silva >> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:19 PM >> To: centos at centos.org >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers >> >> 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. >>> >> 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 > > Ok, thanks. I'll see if I can some sense of the instructions. 8-) > > Strangely enough, only the systems running an Amd cpu gives the screen > artefacts. Go figure...What the artifacts? I switched to the DKMS module in rpmforge and am running an AMD CPU. Only think I've noticed is a weird issue with the cursor in thunderbird, I don't know if that is nvidia related or not though. It is annoying and I don't recall it being there before I updated the driver. Asus M2N board AMD X2 CPU (I think a 5200 - I forget - 2.6 GHz) nVidia Corporation NV42 [GeForce 6800 XT] (rev a2) nvidia-x11-drv-173.08-1.beta.el5.rf kernel 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 x86_64
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu at orgfarm.uu.se> wrote:> > Diagonal thin black lines originating from upper left corner for starters. > Then if I open a gui, whatever sort, that window gets those lines too. Menus > are unreadable because of this, but slightly more readable if I move the > mouse pointer over the menu entry. The lines tend to go away for a short > while if I log off and log on again. Weird thing is that the lines are > always diagonal and tend to always originate from the upper left corner of > whatever window. > > This is with gnome mind you, and *supposedly* this one is the most stable of > all the desktop environments. Haven't tried with KDE and xfce. Can't tell > for sure if it's gnome or the Nvidia drivers specifically, but I'm leaning > towards the drivers. > > It's not a hardware issue, as I've run rhel3 on the same machines w/o any > artifacts. > > The hardware's two-three year old Asus mobo with a single-core AMD x64 and a > rather feisty Nvidia Quadra gfx card. Don't have the exact details right > now, but it should give a hint or two. All the P4-machines, as well as the > i7-boxes, seem to work fine with dkms.I've never seen this problem at all - running AMD 64x2 7750, 4Gb memory with GEForce 7200gs card, nvidia driver nvidia-x11-drv-173.08-1.beta.el5.rf.x86_64 (from rpmforge - duh). I've used a 19" CRT, 17" 1280x1024 flat panel and, currently, 22" 1680x1050 flat panel (Emprex - cheap, but works great). I tried the L&G nvidia driver last year some time, but I decided I'd rather have the rpmforge working dkms driver than the L&G, even though it's a beta driver. When I upgraded to 5.3, that was the first time the driver was actually rebuilt for the kernel since 5.0. HTH mhr