[CentOS] nVdia C15G chipset and GeForce 6100 on board graphix controller

William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com
Mon Sep 3 18:54:40 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 17:54 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> William L. Maltby wrote:
> > Be aware that if your graphic card is not recent enough, the installed
> > driver will tell you that you need a particular prior version from
> > nvidia's site. After using the Rpmforge version, I had to uninstall it,
> > leaving the kernel devel stuff in place, and get the .96xx version from
> > nvidia's site. It was still essentially a no-hassle operation though.
> 
> Why didn't you use the nvidia-x11-drv-96xx from rpmforge, then? 
> 
> =:)

Because I'm blind in one eye and can't see out of the other? =:-O

Actually, I just used yum install from the link you(?) provided and
didn't even think about seeing if other versions were there.

I'll have to re-visit it and do a yum available thingy. I like to keep
the system rpm'd.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ralph
> <snip sig stuff>

Thanks,

--
Bill




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