CentOS - Nov 2010 - Best way to configure proprietary NVidia driver on CentOS ?

Hi,

What's the best (cleanest, easiest, whatever) way to install the proprietary
NVidia driver on CentOS 5.5 ? Usually I'm using the RPMForge 3rd party repo 
and compile the odd missing package myself from a Fedora SRPM. But the nvidia 
packages look a bit like a mess. DKMS has errors in the startup script 
(looking for a nonexistent log_action_msg and the likes), so I wonder if
it's
best to just download the driver from nvidia.com and build it myself. 

Then I thought : I'd rather ask.

Cheers,

Niki
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http://www.kikinovak.net

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Nicolas Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What's the best (cleanest, easiest, whatever) way to install the
proprietary
> NVidia driver on CentOS 5.5 ? Usually I'm using the RPMForge 3rd party
repo
> and compile the odd missing package myself from a Fedora SRPM. But the
nvidia
> packages look a bit like a mess. DKMS has errors in the startup script
> (looking for a nonexistent log_action_msg and the likes), so I wonder if
it's
> best to just download the driver from nvidia.com and build it myself.
>
> Then I thought : I'd rather ask.
In my [heavily biased] opinion, this is by far the best way:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia

Akemi

On 11/12/10 23:34, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What's the best (cleanest, easiest, whatever) way to install the
proprietary
> NVidia driver on CentOS 5.5 ? Usually I'm using the RPMForge 3rd party
repo
> and compile the odd missing package myself from a Fedora SRPM. But the
nvidia
> packages look a bit like a mess. DKMS has errors in the startup script
> (looking for a nonexistent log_action_msg and the likes), so I wonder if
it's
> best to just download the driver from nvidia.com and build it myself.
>
> Then I thought : I'd rather ask.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki
I use the driver from nvidia.com. The setup process is a no brainer.

From: Nicolas Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net>
> What's the best (cleanest, easiest, whatever) way to install the 
proprietary
> NVidia driver on CentOS 5.5 ? Usually I'm using the RPMForge 3rd  party
repo
> and compile the odd missing package myself from a Fedora SRPM.  But the
nvidia
> packages look a bit like a mess. DKMS has errors in the  startup script 
> (looking for a nonexistent log_action_msg and the likes), so  I wonder if
it's
> best to just download the driver from nvidia.com and build  it myself. 
I use dkms-nvidia-x11-drv and it works fine between kernel updates...
While I know kmod is said to be better, last time I tried it, I failed to make 
it work.
Maybe I will retry kmod later...

JD