-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On
Behalf
Of Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:32 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Nvidia driver on CentOS 5.3
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.
Thx, I'm trouble-shooting now. Dkms autoinstaller something-or-other didn't go down too well. Looks promising though. 8-)