CentOS 6.4
Came back from vacation, rebooted workstation, no X. Wound up running nvidia-installer. Now, I had been using kmod-nvidia, but had to stop a month or so ago, when NVidia stopped supporting my two-yr-old card ("legacy"). When that happened, I uninstalled kmod-nvidia.
One dumb question: I can't figure out where I got nvidia-installer. It happily d/l the most current valid version with --update, which it tells me (with --help) that it goes to ftp://download/nvidia.com. -v tells me nvidia-installer: version 319.23 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-11) Thu May 16 20:17:29 PDT 2013 The NVIDIA Software Installer for Unix/Linux.
This program is used to install, upgrade and uninstall The NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver Set for Linux-x86_64.
Copyright (C) 2003 - 2010 NVIDIA Corporation.
Any clues?
mark
On 06/25/2013 07:36 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
CentOS 6.4
Came back from vacation, rebooted workstation, no X. Wound up running nvidia-installer. Now, I had been using kmod-nvidia, but had to stop a month or so ago, when NVidia stopped supporting my two-yr-old card ("legacy"). When that happened, I uninstalled kmod-nvidia.
One dumb question: I can't figure out where I got nvidia-installer. It happily d/l the most current valid version with --update, which it tells me (with --help) that it goes to ftp://download/nvidia.com. -v tells me nvidia-installer: version 319.23
I use elrepo and have nvidia-x11-drv version 319.23-1.el6.elrepo x88_64 installed - they also provide older variants i.e. 173.14.36-1 96.43.20-1 (for the REALLY OLD cards) and 304.88-1 all available in 64 and 32 bit variants. Their rpms seem to deal with new kernel updates just fine.
(buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-11) Thu May 16 20:17:29 PDT 2013 The NVIDIA Software Installer for Unix/Linux.
This program is used to install, upgrade and uninstall The NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver Set for Linux-x86_64.
Copyright (C) 2003 - 2010 NVIDIA Corporation.
Any clues?
mark
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On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Rob Kampen rkampen@kampensonline.com wrote:
On 06/25/2013 07:36 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
CentOS 6.4
Came back from vacation, rebooted workstation, no X. Wound up running nvidia-installer. Now, I had been using kmod-nvidia, but had to stop a month or so ago, when NVidia stopped supporting my two-yr-old card ("legacy"). When that happened, I uninstalled kmod-nvidia.
One dumb question: I can't figure out where I got nvidia-installer. It happily d/l the most current valid version with --update, which it tells me (with --help) that it goes to ftp://download/nvidia.com. -v tells me nvidia-installer: version 319.23
I use elrepo and have nvidia-x11-drv version 319.23-1.el6.elrepo x88_64 installed - they also provide older variants i.e. 173.14.36-1 96.43.20-1 (for the REALLY OLD cards) and 304.88-1 all available in 64 and 32 bit variants. Their rpms seem to deal with new kernel updates just fine.
To determine which version to use, you can install the nvidia-detect package from ELRepo and run it. It will display something similar to this:
$ nvidia-detect Probing for supported NVIDIA devices... [10de:0640] NVIDIA Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] This device requires the current 319.17 NVIDIA driver (kmod-nvidia).
The output tells you the latest 319.x series is appropriate (forget the .17 part. The current is .23) for my Nvidia card.
Akemi
On 06/25/13 01:58, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Rob Kampen rkampen@kampensonline.com wrote:
On 06/25/2013 07:36 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
CentOS 6.4
Came back from vacation, rebooted workstation, no X. Wound up running nvidia-installer. Now, I had been using kmod-nvidia, but had to stop a month or so ago, when NVidia stopped supporting my two-yr-old card ("legacy"). When that happened, I uninstalled kmod-nvidia.
One dumb question: I can't figure out where I got nvidia-installer. It happily d/l the most current valid version with --update, which it tells me (with --help) that it goes to ftp://download/nvidia.com. -v tells me nvidia-installer: version 319.23
I use elrepo and have nvidia-x11-drv version 319.23-1.el6.elrepo x88_64 installed - they also provide older variants i.e. 173.14.36-1 96.43.20-1 (for the REALLY OLD cards) and 304.88-1 all available in 64 and 32 bit variants. Their rpms seem to deal with new kernel updates just fine.
To determine which version to use, you can install the nvidia-detect package from ELRepo and run it. It will display something similar to this:
$ nvidia-detect Probing for supported NVIDIA devices... [10de:0640] NVIDIA Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] This device requires the current 319.17 NVIDIA driver (kmod-nvidia).
The output tells you the latest 319.x series is appropriate (forget the .17 part. The current is .23) for my Nvidia card.
Far out! That I didn't know about. Thanks, Akemi,
mark
On 06/24/13 21:21, Rob Kampen wrote:
On 06/25/2013 07:36 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
CentOS 6.4
Came back from vacation, rebooted workstation, no X. Wound up running nvidia-installer. Now, I had been using kmod-nvidia, but had to stop a month or so ago, when NVidia stopped supporting my two-yr-old card ("legacy"). When that happened, I uninstalled kmod-nvidia.
One dumb question: I can't figure out where I got nvidia-installer. It happily d/l the most current valid version with --update, which it tells me (with --help) that it goes to ftp://download/nvidia.com. -v tells me nvidia-installer: version 319.23
I use elrepo and have nvidia-x11-drv version 319.23-1.el6.elrepo x88_64 installed - they also provide older variants i.e. 173.14.36-1 96.43.20-1 (for the REALLY OLD cards) and 304.88-1 all available in 64 and 32 bit variants. Their rpms seem to deal with new kernel updates just fine.
Ah! Thanks, Rob.
mark
(buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-11) Thu May 16 20:17:29 PDT 2013 The NVIDIA Software Installer for Unix/Linux.
This program is used to install, upgrade and uninstall The NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver Set for Linux-x86_64.
Copyright (C) 2003 - 2010 NVIDIA Corporation.
Any clues?
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Akemi Yagi -
m.roth＠5-cent.us -
mark
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Rob Kampen