William L. Maltby wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 08:33 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: > >> On 8/29/07, Chris Geldenhuis <cgeldenhuis at jhb.ullmanns.co.za> wrote: >> >> >>> I am new to installing drivers etc. Could you possible give me a few >>> pointers to help me along the way. >>> >> RPMForge makes installing the nvidia drivers reasonably easy. Simply >> run 'yum install nvidia-x11-drv' and then reboot. >> >> Instructions for RPMForge are at http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories/RPMForge >> >> >> > > 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. > You should have NP either way. > > -- > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Hi Bill, Thanks for the info - our problem however is that this is the "Latest and Greatest" chip set from nVidia and the drivers do not seem to cater for it adequately. ChrisG