William L. Maltby wrote:
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 08:33 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote:
On 8/29/07, Chris Geldenhuis cgeldenhuis@jhb.ullmanns.co.za wrote:
I am new to installing drivers etc. Could you possible give me a few pointers to help me along the way.
RPMForge makes installing the nvidia drivers reasonably easy. Simply run 'yum install nvidia-x11-drv' and then reboot.
Instructions for RPMForge are at http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories/RPMForge
Be aware that if your graphic card is not recent enough, the installed driver will tell you that you need a particular prior version from nvidia's site. After using the Rpmforge version, I had to uninstall it, leaving the kernel devel stuff in place, and get the .96xx version from nvidia's site. It was still essentially a no-hassle operation though. You should have NP either way.
-- Bill
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Hi Bill,
Thanks for the info - our problem however is that this is the "Latest and Greatest" chip set from nVidia and the drivers do not seem to cater for it adequately.
ChrisG