[CentOS] nvidia-installer

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On 06/25/13 01:58, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com>
> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> To determine which version to use, you can install the nvidia-detect
> package from ELRepo and run it. It will display something similar to
> this:
>
> $ nvidia-detect Probing for supported NVIDIA devices... [10de:0640]
> NVIDIA Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] This device requires the current
> 319.17 NVIDIA driver (kmod-nvidia).
>
> The output tells you the latest 319.x series is appropriate (forget the
> .17 part. The current is .23) for my Nvidia card.

Far out! That I didn't know about. Thanks, Akemi,

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