Sorin Srbu wrote:
yum install nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64
If I were you I'd look more into dkms and the dkms-nvidia-packages. Those are more current, than the driver package in nvidia-x11*.
Or if all else fails, why not get the proprietary Nvidia drivers?
just to clear things up: the nvidia drivers available in rpmforge *are* the proprietary nvidia drivers. They're just conveniently packaged in an rpm, and use dkms for auto-rebuilding. And they don't upgrade to the latest version every time nvidia releases one, which can be good or bad depending on your needs. This is true both for nvidia-x11-drv and dkms-nvidia-x11-drv: the latter is simply a newer version with a name change, and it's the one you should use (but anyways if you installed the older package yum upgrade should offer to upgrade to dkms-*).
Regards, Nicolas
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just to clear things up: the nvidia drivers available in rpmforge *are* the proprietary nvidia drivers. They're just conveniently packaged in an rpm, and use dkms for auto-rebuilding. And they don't upgrade to the latest version every time nvidia releases one, which can be good or bad depending on your needs. This is true both for nvidia-x11-drv and dkms-nvidia-x11-drv: the latter is simply a newer version with a name change, and it's the one you should use (but anyways if you installed the older package yum upgrade should offer to upgrade to dkms-*).
Yeah, sorry for not being clear on that, it slipped my mind. 8-}
I suggested the proprietary drivers, because sometimes you want to remove a layer of complexity with dkms (problems happen...), and just use the proprietary drivers as is.
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