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On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:09:08 -0800 Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:34 PM, fred smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:15:18AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
I used to use the NVIDIA drivers directly from the nvidia.com, but since I upgraded my workstation to CentOS-6.x I have been using elrepo's rpms for nvidia with no issues.
I certainly know how to build things (being that I build most of the c4 and c5 updates that we release), but I love the convenience that elrepo provides. I highly recommend the elrepo site for anything that they currently maintain, they do a great job.
without having yet switched to a repo instead of using the package from nvidia's web site, I just reinstalled the previous version of the nvidia drivers and now flash works. go figure.
the one that was NOT working for me was 290.10, and the next newest one I had (the one I am now using again) is 285.05.09.
Now that you know which version of the Nvidia driver to use, it is time to switch to ELRepo. :-) Otherwise you have to keep re-installing it for each kernel update. You can see here (for example):
http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el6/x86_64/RPMS/
that ELRepo maintains earlier versions of the driver. Install the one you want, and exclude it in yum.conf so that the "good" one stays on your system.
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Glad to hear Fred fixed his issue :-).
Just for the record, I too manually install Nvidia drivers without a repo on all my machines (Both CentOS & Fedora). This issue can be triggered by xorg updates etc. It can be a bit of a pain having to reinstall the drivers manually, but for me I always run into some weird problem or other with the repository versions. So I just keep a good version of the driver at "/nv.run" and run it after each xorg or kernel update :-). But that is my personal preference.
But if you do not get problems with the RPM versions I would recommend you get them :-).
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