[CentOS] CentOS 3.8 Kernel Update with NVIDIA Video Card

[Alfred von Campe]

On Oct 20, 2006, at 22:22, Corwin Burgess wrote:

> I can think of two ways to solve this problem but I'd rather have  
> some expert advice. What's the best way to boot with the new  
> kernel, install the nvidia driver and of course update the NVIDIA  
> kernel module?

The following worked for me:

   1. Download the latest driver packager from NVIDIA (e.g., NVIDIA- 
Linux-x86-1.0-8774-pkg1.run)
   2. Boot the new kernel to run level 3 (or wait for it to fail to  
go to run level 5)
   3. Log in as root and run ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8774-pkg1.run and  
answer the prompts

Oh yeah, you will most likely need to have the kernel-devel RPM  
installed so that it can rebuild the kernel module for CentOS.

Alfred