Is there a way to use "Nouveau" (open source Nvidia) driver in CentOS 5 ? "nv" seems to support only the lowest resolutions thru the dvi output (NV44 chip), and I don't like the idea of installing propiertary Nvidia drivers. This way I came to Nouveau. I had a look at some Fedora rpms, but they needed something CentOS obviously doesn't have: # rpm -ivh xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-2.1.6-1.fc8.x86_64.rpm kernel-drm-nouveau = 10 is needed by xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-2.1.6-1.fc8.x86_64 Regards, Timo
Timo Neuvonen wrote:> Is there a way to use "Nouveau" (open source Nvidia) driver in CentOS 5 ? > > "nv" seems to support only the lowest resolutions thru the dvi output (NV44 > chip), and I don't like the idea of installing propiertary Nvidia drivers. > This way I came to Nouveau. > > I had a look at some Fedora rpms, but they needed something CentOS > obviously doesn't have: > > # rpm -ivh xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-2.1.6-1.fc8.x86_64.rpm > kernel-drm-nouveau = 10 is needed by xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-2.1.6-1.fc8.x86_64 >you can't use RPMs built for a different OS distribution, you'd need to take the SRPM and rebuild/recompile it.
To OP in my previious reply the yum install should be: yum install nvidia-x11-drv --enablepo=*\rpmforge> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Timo Neuvonen > Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 8:54 PM > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] xorg-x11-drv-nouveau for CentOS? > > Is there a way to use "Nouveau" (open source Nvidia) driver > in CentOS 5 ? > > "nv" seems to support only the lowest resolutions thru the > dvi output (NV44 > chip), and I don't like the idea of installing propiertary > Nvidia drivers. > This way I came to Nouveau. > > I had a look at some Fedora rpms, but they needed something CentOS > obviously doesn't have: > > # rpm -ivh xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-2.1.6-1.fc8.x86_64.rpm > kernel-drm-nouveau = 10 is needed by > xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-2.1.6-1.fc8.x86_64 > > > Regards, > Timo > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Timo Neuvonen <timo-news at tee-en.net> wrote:> Is there a way to use "Nouveau" (open source Nvidia) driver in CentOS 5 ? > > "nv" seems to support only the lowest resolutions thru the dvi output (NV44 > chip), and I don't like the idea of installing propiertary Nvidia drivers.What's wrong with the nvidia drivers? mhr