Hi guys - brand new 5.1 install here and quite happy - but... The nv driver did not work at all for me, fritzy stripes and dots. This is a GeForce 7300 LE which was working happily dual-head under FC6 with the livna nvidia RPMs So I looked around and it seemed like the ATRpms repo via yum was the best option for CentOS. This is what I installed, it worked great with the xorg.conf from the old system. But then I did a 'yum update' to the system and got a new kernel from centosplus (?). Now the nvidia module won't load. It's not happy with the new kernel. I am at a loss as to how to make it happy? what is the best way to install the closed-source drivers? direct from nvidia? recomplile them? Is there some gap between updates kernel and the atrpms modules? and in advance I am SORRY if this has been beat to death. I know ~75% of the traffic on the Fedora list was about nvidia woes and flames. Lame, but the DRI does work well on these and my daughter likes to play games. best, Sam
Sam Beam wrote:> Hi guys - brand new 5.1 install here and quite happy - but... > > The nv driver did not work at all for me, fritzy stripes and dots. This is a > GeForce 7300 LE which was working happily dual-head under FC6 with the livna > nvidia RPMs > > So I looked around and it seemed like the ATRpms repo via yum was the best > option for CentOS. This is what I installed, it worked great with the > xorg.conf from the old system. > > But then I did a 'yum update' to the system and got a new kernel from > centosplus (?). > > Now the nvidia module won't load. It's not happy with the new kernel. I am at > a loss as to how to make it happy? > > what is the best way to install the closed-source drivers? direct from nvidia? > recomplile them? Is there some gap between updates kernel and the atrpms > modules? >Hi Sam, I would recommend the nvidia driver on RPMForge as it's a dkms-based driver, meaning that it gets automatically rebuilt upon a kernel upgrade. You'd need to enable the RPMForge repo, see here: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories and then install dkms and the nvidia driver for your card yum install dkms nvidia-x11-drv Check that the dkms_autoinstaller service is set to run at the appropriate run levels and you should be good to go (you may need to first uninstall the existing ATRpms driver package). Oh - you'll probably also need the devel stuff present on your system such as kernel-headers, kernel-devel and gcc etc for the driver to compile. Hope that helps.
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:54:09PM -0400, Sam Beam wrote:> Hi guys - brand new 5.1 install here and quite happy - but... > > The nv driver did not work at all for me, fritzy stripes and dots. This is a > GeForce 7300 LE which was working happily dual-head under FC6 with the livna > nvidia RPMs > > So I looked around and it seemed like the ATRpms repo via yum was the best > option for CentOS. This is what I installed, it worked great with the > xorg.conf from the old system. > > But then I did a 'yum update' to the system and got a new kernel from > centosplus (?). > > Now the nvidia module won't load. It's not happy with the new kernel. I am at > a loss as to how to make it happy?You forgot to install yum-plugin-kmdl, so yum would install the proper kmlds for any new kernel.> what is the best way to install the closed-source drivers? direct from nvidia? > recomplile them? Is there some gap between updates kernel and the atrpms > modules? > > and in advance I am SORRY if this has been beat to death. I know ~75% of the > traffic on the Fedora list was about nvidia woes and flames. Lame, but the > DRI does work well on these and my daughter likes to play games.-- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080401/13023808/attachment-0002.sig>
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 12:54 -0400, Sam Beam wrote:> Hi guys - brand new 5.1 install here and quite happy - but... > > The nv driver did not work at all for me, fritzy stripes and dots. This is a > GeForce 7300 LE which was working happily dual-head under FC6 with the livna > nvidia RPMs > > So I looked around and it seemed like the ATRpms repo via yum was the best > option for CentOS. This is what I installed, it worked great with the > xorg.conf from the old system. > > But then I did a 'yum update' to the system and got a new kernel from > centosplus (?). > > Now the nvidia module won't load. It's not happy with the new kernel. I am at > a loss as to how to make it happy? > > what is the best way to install the closed-source drivers? direct from nvidia? > recomplile them? Is there some gap between updates kernel and the atrpms > modules? > > and in advance I am SORRY if this has been beat to death. I know ~75% of the > traffic on the Fedora list was about nvidia woes and flames. Lame, but the > DRI does work well on these and my daughter likes to play games. > > best, > SamGo get the driver for your card from http://nvidia.com . Put it in you root / and then telinit 3 at the cmd line. Then exec sh nvidea-driver-.0.0.0. It does work from centOS 4 - 5.1. "01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)" Mine is older then yours. You should need the newer driver. Exact link is: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us> _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-- ~/john OpenPGP Sig:BA91F079
Sam Beam a ?crit :> Hi guys - brand new 5.1 install here and quite happy - but... > > The nv driver did not work at all for me, fritzy stripes and dots. This is a > GeForce 7300 LE which was working happily dual-head under FC6 with the livna > nvidia RPMs >I tried the nvidia dkms driver from rpmforge, which didn't work here. So I went to www.nvidia.com, downloaded the package and built it myself. Works like a charm. And updates end up in weak-updates anyway :oD Niki