On Monday 31 March 2008 14:02, Ned Slider wrote:
Sam Beam wrote:
what is the best way to install the closed-source drivers? direct from nvidia? recomplile them? Is there some gap between updates kernel and the atrpms modules?
Hi Sam,
I would recommend the nvidia driver on RPMForge as it's a dkms-based driver, meaning that it gets automatically rebuilt upon a kernel upgrade.
You'd need to enable the RPMForge repo, see here:
http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories
and then install dkms and the nvidia driver for your card
yum install dkms nvidia-x11-drv
Check that the dkms_autoinstaller service is set to run at the appropriate run levels and you should be good to go (you may need to first uninstall the existing ATRpms driver package). Oh - you'll probably also need the devel stuff present on your system such as kernel-headers, kernel-devel and gcc etc for the driver to compile.
Hope that helps.
Thanks Ned that works great! I'd never heard of dkms before. the best!
for the record, here is what I did since I was already running under the new updated kernel:
1) add the RPMforge repo per the http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories link with "priority=N" add to each /etc/yum.repos.d/*conf as instructed 2) yum erase existing nvidia* rpms 3) "yum install nvidia-x11-drv nvidia-x11-drv-96xx dkms"
ok, easy. then I had to figure out how to make dkms build and load up modules that would work under the running kernel: 4) dkms build -m nvidia -v 1.0.9755-1.nodist.rf 5) dkms install -m nvidia -v 1.0.9755-1.nodist.rf 6) startx
all is well! will test the autoinstaller later. This rocks thanks