Sorin Srbu wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Scott Silva Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:19 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers
on 4-6-2009 5:55 AM Sorin Srbu spake the following:
I got the DKMS-system working and now have the Nvidia-drivers v173.08 installed (using rpmforge as suggested previously). Unfortunately this particular driver version gives me screen artifacts so as to make the screen more or less unreadable.
You could always try and make a newer version yourself using the old one as a template. Here is some help;
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6896
Ok, thanks. I'll see if I can some sense of the instructions. 8-)
Strangely enough, only the systems running an Amd cpu gives the screen artefacts. Go figure...
What the artifacts? I switched to the DKMS module in rpmforge and am running an AMD CPU. Only think I've noticed is a weird issue with the cursor in thunderbird, I don't know if that is nvidia related or not though. It is annoying and I don't recall it being there before I updated the driver.
Asus M2N board AMD X2 CPU (I think a 5200 - I forget - 2.6 GHz) nVidia Corporation NV42 [GeForce 6800 XT] (rev a2)
nvidia-x11-drv-173.08-1.beta.el5.rf kernel 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 x86_64