[CentOS] xorg-x11-drv-nouveau for CentOS?

John jses27 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 28 15:41:32 UTC 2008


> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce
> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 5:13 AM
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> Subject: Re: [CentOS] xorg-x11-drv-nouveau for CentOS?
> 
> Timo Neuvonen wrote:
> >>> # rpm -ivh xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-2.1.6-1.fc8.x86_64.rpm
> >>> kernel-drm-nouveau = 10 is needed by 
> >>> xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-2.1.6-1.fc8.x86_6
> >> you can't use RPMs built for a different OS distribution, 
> you'd need to
> >> take the SRPM and rebuild/recompile it.
> >>     
> >
> > Aren't the dependencies still the same? I think they are explicitly 
> > spesified in the spec file of the source rpm?
> >   
> 
> out of general curiosity, I did some poking around the 
> Nouveau project 
> wiki.    In short order, I learned..
> 
> A) its still highly experimental and very incomplete.
> 
> B) it has three components, a 2D driver, a 3D driver, and a kernel 
> driver.    you need to build all three together for your target OS.

Install the RPM Forge Repo. For CentOS 5 would be:
http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.
rpm
rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
yum install dkms --enablerepo=*\rpmforge
yum install nvidia-dkms --enablerepo=*\rpmforge
Your xorg config file will get updated also,
I have never heard of "nouveau".

JohnStanley

Ref:
https://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge/Using




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