On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 12:54 -0400, Sam Beam wrote:
Hi guys - brand new 5.1 install here and quite happy - but...
The nv driver did not work at all for me, fritzy stripes and dots. This is a GeForce 7300 LE which was working happily dual-head under FC6 with the livna nvidia RPMs
So I looked around and it seemed like the ATRpms repo via yum was the best option for CentOS. This is what I installed, it worked great with the xorg.conf from the old system.
But then I did a 'yum update' to the system and got a new kernel from centosplus (?).
Now the nvidia module won't load. It's not happy with the new kernel. I am at a loss as to how to make it happy?
what is the best way to install the closed-source drivers? direct from nvidia? recomplile them? Is there some gap between updates kernel and the atrpms modules?
and in advance I am SORRY if this has been beat to death. I know ~75% of the traffic on the Fedora list was about nvidia woes and flames. Lame, but the DRI does work well on these and my daughter likes to play games.
best, Sam
Go get the driver for your card from http://nvidia.com . Put it in you root / and then telinit 3 at the cmd line. Then exec sh nvidea-driver-.0.0.0. It does work from centOS 4 - 5.1.
"01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)"
Mine is older then yours. You should need the newer driver. Exact link is: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
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