Looks like there's no repo that carries the Nvidia drivers. I enabled all the big repos in /etc/yum.repos.d and did a "yum provides" and nothing showed up.
Where do you get your Nvidia RPMs from?
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 16:40 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
Looks like there's no repo that carries the Nvidia drivers. I enabled all the big repos in /etc/yum.repos.d and did a "yum provides" and nothing showed up.
Where do you get your Nvidia RPMs from?
I get mine from Livna, but that's for Fedora. At the moment Livna is supporting FC6 (maybe FC5, too).
You could grab the source RPMs from Livna and rebuild them on your CentOS box.
Regards,
Ranbir
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:01:12AM -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 16:40 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
Looks like there's no repo that carries the Nvidia drivers. I enabled all the big repos in /etc/yum.repos.d and did a "yum provides" and nothing showed up.
Where do you get your Nvidia RPMs from?
I get mine from Livna, but that's for Fedora. At the moment Livna is supporting FC6 (maybe FC5, too).
You could grab the source RPMs from Livna and rebuild them on your CentOS box.
or you cuold just get the package directly from Nvidia and follow their install instructions. Works fine on my Centos 4.4 box that way.
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 16:40 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
Looks like there's no repo that carries the Nvidia drivers. I enabled all the big repos in /etc/yum.repos.d and did a "yum provides" and nothing showed up.
Where do you get your Nvidia RPMs from?
I get mine from Livna, but that's for Fedora. At the moment Livna is supporting FC6 (maybe FC5, too).
Well, I've been using Fedora a lot since the beginning of the project. Livna does a wonderful job. I wish they supported CentOS too.
You could grab the source RPMs from Livna and rebuild them on your CentOS box.
Ugh... :-/ Would be really nice to be able to pull everything with yum.
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 09:42 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
Well, I've been using Fedora a lot since the beginning of the project. Livna does a wonderful job. I wish they supported CentOS too.
Maybe with the release of CentOS 5 things will change. CentOS 4 is great, but the desktop side of things is just ancient: providing CentOS 4 rpms for desktop "stuff" isn't always possible because of other dependencies that can't be met without ripping CentOS 4 apart (e.g. upgraded Gnome to a newer release).
That being said, I was hoping that rpmforge would cover stuff like this. I don't think they do - yet. Might be worth putting in a package request there.
Regards,
Ranbir
I use HP's NVidia RPMS. It's not as easy as using a YUM repository, but I seldom need to upgrade my video drivers. And the HP drivers come with the nvconfig script which automatically checks for a kernel driver for the current kernel at boot time and builds/installs it if needed. Makes upgrading/customizing kernels completely painless.
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