I set up a new system that includes the following:
ASUS AE8N-E Motherboard (NVIDIA nForce 4 Ultra Chipset) AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Processor OCZ PC3200 Gold Edition 1GB Memory EVGA GeForce 6600 PCI-Express x16 Video Card CentOS 3.7
The video card wasn't detected and I had to use the VESA driver (generic) when I installed CentOS 3.7. As this is the first time I've used a NVIDIA video card with Linux my knowledge is nil on this subject. After a quick review of the available video drivers that come with CentOS 3.7 I did a Google search and came up with this link:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-8762.html
Linux Display Driver - IA32 Version: 1.0-8762 Operating System: Linux IA32 Release Date: May 22, 2006
I downloaded this driver and attempted to install it. When I run this
# sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8762-pkg1.run
to install the driver I'm told that I'm running an X server and that I need to exit X before installing the NVIDIA driver. After some experimenting I'm left with two questions:
1. How do I exit the X server to install this video driver?
2. How do I restart the X server when the driver is installed?
Any other comments about this subject would be welcome.
Thanks, Corwin Burgess