Re: [CentOS] Best way to configure proprietary NVidia driver on CentOS ?

From: Nicolas Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net

What's the best (cleanest, easiest, whatever) way to install the proprietary NVidia driver on CentOS 5.5 ? Usually I'm using the RPMForge 3rd party repo and compile the odd missing package myself from a Fedora SRPM. But the nvidia

packages look a bit like a mess. DKMS has errors in the startup script (looking for a nonexistent log_action_msg and the likes), so I wonder if it's

best to just download the driver from nvidia.com and build it myself.

I use dkms-nvidia-x11-drv and it works fine between kernel updates... While I know kmod is said to be better, last time I tried it, I failed to make it work. Maybe I will retry kmod later...

JD