[CentOS] Nvidia driver on CentOS 5.3
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr
Thu Apr 2 12:31:31 UTC 2009
Sorin Srbu wrote:
> On a related sidetrack; is there any difference between the proprietary
> Nvidia-drivers and the ones from eg rpmforge? Specifically, we use the
> proprietary Nvidia drivers on our dozen or so course computers because they
> support stereo-3D. When our former *nix-admin set this up years ago, there
> weren't anything else to use than the proprietary drivers. Hence my question.
the rpmforge driver *is* the proprietary nvidia driver. It's just nicely
packaged in an rpm, with dkms for rebuilding when you get a new kernel.
It's also not the latest version, which may or may not be a problem for
you. It's working well enough for a lot of people, but YMMV.
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