Ron Blizzard wrote:
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic office@plnet.rs wrote:
Since Pentium Pro, only old 400 MHz-bus versions of the Pentium M lack PAE support.
This laptop is a Latitude D400, which I think were made in 2005. It definitely doesn't have PAE support. I discovered that when I tried to test Red Hat beta 6 on it. It's okay though, it probably won't last much longer than CentOS 5 support anyhow. It'll work out fine.
I'm hoping CentOS doesn't fight me when I try to load the proprietary nVidia driver on the desktop. The only way I could do it in Linux Mint was to blacklist Nouveau in the Grub boot menu. And Mint/Ubuntu don't have an easy way to boot into the command line (when you just want to do it for maintenance, like installing a video driver).
ElRepo has kernel modules already compiled: http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia so I guess it should be OK. Playing around with recompiling nVidia drivers was a real pain in a ....
Ljubomir