CentOS - Apr 2012 - Centos 6.2 Nvidia drivers from elrepo - kmod-nvidia

Hi all,

Having issues with the Nvidia drives on Centos 6.2.

So after I do yum install kmod-nvidia and rebooting, I get no screen.

My errors;

/var/log/messages;

kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 GPU installed in this system is
kernel: NVRM:  supported through the NVIDIA 96.43.xx Legacy drivers. Please
kernel: NVRM:  visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
kernel: NVRM:  information.  The 295.40 NVIDIA driver will ignore
kernel: NVRM:  this GPU.  Continuing probe...
kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
gdm-binary[2013]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.548291 seconds
gdm-binary[2013]: WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display
failures reached: check X server log for errors

/var/log/Xorg.0.log;

[    37.145] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check
your
[    37.145] (EE) NVIDIA:     system's kernel log for additional error
messages.
[    37.145] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
[    37.145] (II) Unloading nvidia
[    37.145] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific
error, 0)
[    37.145] (EE) No drivers available.
[    37.145] Fatal server error:
[    37.145] no screens found
[    37.145] 

I also tried to install the Nvidia driver from there site by first disabling
nouveau and running there installer but that one seemed rather unstable.


Any ideas?

Thanks in adance.

- aurf

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:40 PM, aurfalien <aurfalien at gmail.com>
wrote:
> So after I do yum install kmod-nvidia and rebooting, I get no screen.
>
> My errors;
>
> /var/log/messages;
>
> kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 GPU installed in this system is
> kernel: NVRM: ?supported through the NVIDIA 96.43.xx Legacy drivers. Please
> kernel: NVRM: ?visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
> kernel: NVRM: ?information. ?The 295.40 NVIDIA driver will ignore
> kernel: NVRM: ?this GPU. ?Continuing probe...
  (snip)
> Any ideas?
Yes. As the error message says ... You need to install the legacy
driver (96xx), not the 295.40 NVIDIA driver.

Please see:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia-96xx

Akemi