Does the nvidia drivers (downloaded from nvidia) support or work with the new centos 5 (beta) ? The version of X windows is different I think.
Jerry
Jerry Geis wrote:
Does the nvidia drivers (downloaded from nvidia) support or work with the new centos 5 (beta) ? The version of X windows is different I think.
when you tried it, what problem did you have ?
Karanbir Singh wrote:
Jerry Geis wrote:
Does the nvidia drivers (downloaded from nvidia) support or work with the new centos 5 (beta) ? The version of X windows is different I think.
when you tried it, what problem did you have ?
It won't compile on a Xen enabled kernel ...
Ralph
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Karanbir Singh wrote:
Jerry Geis wrote:
Does the nvidia drivers (downloaded from nvidia) support or work with the new centos 5 (beta) ? The version of X windows is different I think.
when you tried it, what problem did you have ?
It won't compile on a Xen enabled kernel ...
what version are you using ? I've got the nvidia drivers working for me here on the Xen kernel ( x86_64 ) but I've not downloaded a newer one, so whatever was on my machine from months back, just rebuilt and works.
- KB
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:18:15 +0100 "KS" == Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
KS> Ralph Angenendt wrote: >> Karanbir Singh wrote: >>> Jerry Geis wrote: >>>> Does the nvidia drivers (downloaded from nvidia) support or >>>> work with the new centos 5 (beta) ? The version of X windows >>>> is different I think. >>>> >>> when you tried it, what problem did you have ? >> It won't compile on a Xen enabled kernel ... >>
KS> what version are you using ? I've got the nvidia drivers KS> working for me here on the Xen kernel ( x86_64 ) but I've not KS> downloaded a newer one, so whatever was on my machine from KS> months back, just rebuilt and works.
I know this is a bit off-topic, but as we're talking about rebuilding the drivers for new kernels:
- has anyone written - or is aware
of such a solution:
a script that during booting - checks whether the nVidia-driver is present - rebuilds it unattended, if it is not so that the user always gets a graphic login, even after kernel-updates.
I'm aware that rebuilding kernel-modules without human supervision is not a good idea, but rebuilding the graphics-driver on a number of workstations after each kernel-update is annoying (especially if you can't do it on all of them at the same time, because people are ... working on them)
I know, that the script should not be hard to write, but I don't want to duplicate any work that has been done before (especially if there is a "standard"-way of doing this, which I was to stupid to find)
On Mar 29, 2007, at 9:58 AM, bgschaid_lists@ice-sf.at wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:18:15 +0100 "KS" == Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
KS> Ralph Angenendt wrote:Karanbir Singh wrote:
Jerry Geis wrote:
Does the nvidia drivers (downloaded from nvidia) support or work with the new centos 5 (beta) ? The version of X windows is different I think.
when you tried it, what problem did you have ?
It won't compile on a Xen enabled kernel ...
KS> what version are you using ? I've got the nvidia drivers KS> working for me here on the Xen kernel ( x86_64 ) but I've not KS> downloaded a newer one, so whatever was on my machine from KS> months back, just rebuilt and works.I know this is a bit off-topic, but as we're talking about rebuilding the drivers for new kernels:
- has anyone written
- or is aware
of such a solution:
a script that during booting
- checks whether the nVidia-driver is present
- rebuilds it unattended, if it is not
so that the user always gets a graphic login, even after kernel-updates.
I'm aware that rebuilding kernel-modules without human supervision is not a good idea, but rebuilding the graphics-driver on a number of workstations after each kernel-update is annoying (especially if you can't do it on all of them at the same time, because people are ... working on them)
I know, that the script should not be hard to write, but I don't want to duplicate any work that has been done before (especially if there is a "standard"-way of doing this, which I was to stupid to find)
Dell has done it using DKMS. If you install an nvidia driver (and other drivers too) from their site, it installs a DKMS enabled package that rebuilds itself for any new kernel.
It mostly works. I've never tried installing one of these on a computer that was not a Dell.
Tony Schreiner
The HP drivers do this, too. They install a script /etc/init.d/nvconfig which checks if there's a driver for the current kernel version at boot time and builds/installs it if necessary. Other than this script, the HP RPM is just a repackaging of the NVidia drivers w/ no mods, so they should work on any RPM-based distro. Installs in /opt/HP
bgschaid_lists@ice-sf.at wrote:
a script that during booting
- checks whether the nVidia-driver is present
- rebuilds it unattended, if it is not
so that the user always gets a graphic login, even after kernel-updates.
there is, i am sure most people are aware of this, usually no need to rebuild the kernelmodule when the kernel updates on CentOS.. if there has been a need, please open bug reports :)
- KB
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 at 3:59pm, Karanbir Singh wrote
bgschaid_lists@ice-sf.at wrote:
a script that during booting
- checks whether the nVidia-driver is present
- rebuilds it unattended, if it is not
so that the user always gets a graphic login, even after kernel-updates.
there is, i am sure most people are aware of this, usually no need to rebuild the kernelmodule when the kernel updates on CentOS.. if there has been a need, please open bug reports :)
There may be no need to rebuild the module, but doesn't it need to be put in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video for each new kernel?
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
there is, i am sure most people are aware of this, usually no need to rebuild the kernelmodule when the kernel updates on CentOS.. if there has been a need, please open bug reports :)
There may be no need to rebuild the module, but doesn't it need to be put in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video for each new kernel?
i tend to use the /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/ directory for such non-standard-ko's ... but yea, you need to move them along.
perhaps a yum plugin might be called for ?
- KB
bgschaid_lists@ice-sf.at wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:18:15 +0100 "KS" == Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
KS> Ralph Angenendt wrote: >> Karanbir Singh wrote: >>> Jerry Geis wrote: >>>> Does the nvidia drivers (downloaded from nvidia) support or >>>> work with the new centos 5 (beta) ? The version of X windows >>>> is different I think. >>>> >>> when you tried it, what problem did you have ? >> It won't compile on a Xen enabled kernel ... >> KS> what version are you using ? I've got the nvidia drivers KS> working for me here on the Xen kernel ( x86_64 ) but I've not KS> downloaded a newer one, so whatever was on my machine from KS> months back, just rebuilt and works.I know this is a bit off-topic, but as we're talking about rebuilding the drivers for new kernels:
- has anyone written
- or is aware
of such a solution:
a script that during booting
- checks whether the nVidia-driver is present
- rebuilds it unattended, if it is not
so that the user always gets a graphic login, even after kernel-updates.
I'm aware that rebuilding kernel-modules without human supervision is not a good idea, but rebuilding the graphics-driver on a number of workstations after each kernel-update is annoying (especially if you can't do it on all of them at the same time, because people are ... working on them)
I know, that the script should not be hard to write, but I don't want to duplicate any work that has been done before (especially if there is a "standard"-way of doing this, which I was to stupid to find)
just put the following lines into /etc/rc.local :
if [ ! -e /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko ]; then echo "installing NVIDIA kernel module. This takes some time." /root/NVIDIA.run --no-network -s -K -n fi
This obviously assumes that the package you downloaded from the NVIDIA site is made executable, and sym-linked or copied to /root/NVIDIA.run
I've been using this for quite some time.
HTH,
Kay
bgschaid_lists@ice-sf.at wrote:
a script that during booting
- checks whether the nVidia-driver is present
- rebuilds it unattended, if it is not
so that the user always gets a graphic login, even after kernel-updates.
A repo really needs to start carrying Nvidia driver RPMs.
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 at 4:38pm, Florin Andrei wrote
bgschaid_lists@ice-sf.at wrote:
a script that during booting
- checks whether the nVidia-driver is present
- rebuilds it unattended, if it is not
so that the user always gets a graphic login, even after kernel-updates.
A repo really needs to start carrying Nvidia driver RPMs.
ATrpms does. SL may as well.
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 at 4:38pm, Florin Andrei wrote
A repo really needs to start carrying Nvidia driver RPMs.
ATrpms does. SL may as well.
I've had some unpleasant experiences with ATrpms on Fedora - kind of like centosplus except it doesn't say it explicitly and it will mess with default packages.
What's your experience with ATrpms on CentOS?
Florin Andrei wrote:
What's your experience with ATrpms on CentOS?
OK, you don't have to answer that. I figured it myself. It's bad. :-(
Looks like I'll do what I used to do with the MythTV packages on Fedora: define the atrpms repo in yum but don't enable it, and just add "--enablerepo=atrpms" to the yum command line when I really need it.
# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo [atrpms] name=$releasever - $basearch - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms gpgcheck=1 enabled=0
On Thursday 05 April 2007, Florin Andrei wrote:
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 at 4:38pm, Florin Andrei wrote
A repo really needs to start carrying Nvidia driver RPMs.
ATrpms does. SL may as well.
I've had some unpleasant experiences with ATrpms on Fedora - kind of like centosplus except it doesn't say it explicitly and it will mess with default packages.
So, you either 1) include only the packages you really want from that repo, or 2) use the protectbase plugin and make sure it doesn't replace packages from other repos.
/Peter
What's your experience with ATrpms on CentOS?
I'll bet there are legal issue preventing that. Read NVidia's licensing agreement. I'm sure there's a paragraph preventing redistribution of the binaries.
Bisbal, Prentice wrote:
I'll bet there are legal issue preventing that. Read NVidia's licensing agreement. I'm sure there's a paragraph preventing redistribution of the binaries.
Actually, it looks like that's changed. Here's a quote from NVidia... "...Why does NVIDIA not provide RPMs anymore?
Not every Linux distribution uses RPM, and NVIDIA wanted a single solution that would work across all Linux distributions. As indicated in the NVIDIA Software License, Linux distributions are welcome to repackage and redistribute the NVIDIA Linux driver in whatever package format they wish..."
found on this page: http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9755/README/chapter-04.h...
Karanbir Singh wrote:
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
It won't compile on a Xen enabled kernel ...
what version are you using ? I've got the nvidia drivers working for me here on the Xen kernel ( x86_64 ) but I've not downloaded a newer one, so whatever was on my machine from months back, just rebuilt and works.
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9755-pkg2.run. That one detects that the kernel is Xen-enabled and advises you to a) turn off Xen or b) revert to the nv driver.
And as I really would like to have Xen and *bling* ...
Cheers,
Ralph
On 3/29/07, Ralph Angenendt ra+centos@br-online.de wrote:
Karanbir Singh wrote:
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
It won't compile on a Xen enabled kernel ...
what version are you using ? I've got the nvidia drivers working for me here on the Xen kernel ( x86_64 ) but I've not downloaded a newer one, so whatever was on my machine from months back, just rebuilt and works.
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9755-pkg2.run. That one detects that the kernel is Xen-enabled and advises you to a) turn off Xen or b) revert to the nv driver.
And as I really would like to have Xen and *bling* ...
Cheers,
Ralph
Have a read of http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=85037 - there's a patch for 9746 there which lets you install it on a xen kernel. I've not spotted one for 9755 anywhere yet but that's what I used to get dual head going properly when I had a quick play with the c5 beta.
Cheers,
Tony.
Tony wrote:
On 3/29/07, Ralph Angenendt ra+centos@br-online.de wrote:
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9755-pkg2.run. That one detects that the kernel is Xen-enabled and advises you to a) turn off Xen or b) revert to the nv driver.
And as I really would like to have Xen and *bling* ...
Have a read of http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=85037
- there's a patch for 9746 there which lets you install it on a xen
kernel. I've not spotted one for 9755 anywhere yet but that's what I used to get dual head going properly when I had a quick play with the c5 beta.
Merci beaucoup, I will look into that ...
Cheers,
Ralph
--- Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
Does the nvidia drivers (downloaded from nvidia) support or work with the new centos 5 (beta) ? The version of X windows is different I think.
Yes, it does.
I have a nvidia quadro something (64Mb) and it works perfectly on CentOS 4.92 AMD64. You need the kernel headers to compile the driver. If you use the binary package from nvidia.com the procedure is exactly the same as in any other version of Linux.
I am using DVI so I didn't even have to configure the monitor, it just worked :)
Gabriel
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Jerry Geis wrote:
Does the nvidia drivers (downloaded from nvidia) support or work with the new centos 5 (beta) ? The version of X windows is different I think.
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It is working fine for me. Im using NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9755-pkg1.run
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