[CentOS] nvidia-installer

[Rob Kampen]

On 06/25/2013 07:36 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> CentOS 6.4
>
> Came back from vacation, rebooted workstation, no X. Wound up running
> nvidia-installer. Now, I had been using kmod-nvidia, but had to stop a
> month or so ago, when NVidia stopped supporting my two-yr-old card
> ("legacy"). When that happened, I uninstalled kmod-nvidia.
>
> One dumb question: I can't figure out where I got nvidia-installer. It
> happily d/l the most current valid version with --update, which it tells
> me (with --help) that it goes to ftp://download/nvidia.com. -v tells me
> nvidia-installer:  version 319.23
I use elrepo and have nvidia-x11-drv version 319.23-1.el6.elrepo x88_64 
installed - they also provide older variants i.e. 173.14.36-1 96.43.20-1 
(for the REALLY OLD cards) and 304.88-1 all available in 64 and 32 bit 
variants. Their rpms seem to deal with new kernel updates just fine.
> (buildmeister at swio-display-x86-rhel47-11)  Thu
> May 16 20:17:29 PDT 2013
>    The NVIDIA Software Installer for Unix/Linux.
>
>    This program is used to install, upgrade and uninstall The NVIDIA
> Accelerated
>    Graphics Driver Set for Linux-x86_64.
>
>    Copyright (C) 2003 - 2010 NVIDIA Corporation.
>
> Any clues?
>
>         mark
>
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