Hi,
What's the best (cleanest, easiest, whatever) way to install the proprietary NVidia driver on CentOS 5.5 ? Usually I'm using the RPMForge 3rd party repo and compile the odd missing package myself from a Fedora SRPM. But the nvidia packages look a bit like a mess. DKMS has errors in the startup script (looking for a nonexistent log_action_msg and the likes), so I wonder if it's best to just download the driver from nvidia.com and build it myself.
Then I thought : I'd rather ask.
Cheers,
Niki
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Nicolas Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net wrote:
Hi,
What's the best (cleanest, easiest, whatever) way to install the proprietary NVidia driver on CentOS 5.5 ? Usually I'm using the RPMForge 3rd party repo and compile the odd missing package myself from a Fedora SRPM. But the nvidia packages look a bit like a mess. DKMS has errors in the startup script (looking for a nonexistent log_action_msg and the likes), so I wonder if it's best to just download the driver from nvidia.com and build it myself.
Then I thought : I'd rather ask.
In my [heavily biased] opinion, this is by far the best way:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
Akemi
Le vendredi 12 novembre 2010 23:37:56, Akemi Yagi a écrit :
In my [heavily biased] opinion, this is by far the best way:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
Akemi
Thanks for the quick reply. How do I go about to install this one ? Usually I have [rpmforge] configured, so I *think* (correct me if I'm wrong), I have to setup [elrepo] (put the according configuration in /etc/yum.repos.d), but with 'enabled=0'. And then :
yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-nvidia nvidia-x11-drv
Right ?
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On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Nicolas Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net wrote:
Le vendredi 12 novembre 2010 23:37:56, Akemi Yagi a écrit :
In my [heavily biased] opinion, this is by far the best way:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
Akemi
Thanks for the quick reply. How do I go about to install this one ? Usually I have [rpmforge] configured, so I *think* (correct me if I'm wrong), I have to setup [elrepo] (put the according configuration in /etc/yum.repos.d), but with 'enabled=0'. And then :
yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-nvidia nvidia-x11-drv
Right ?
Yes, but please make sure you *uninstall* the rpmforge package as stated in the "Notes for RPMForge users" section.
Akemi
On 11/12/10 23:34, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
What's the best (cleanest, easiest, whatever) way to install the proprietary NVidia driver on CentOS 5.5 ? Usually I'm using the RPMForge 3rd party repo and compile the odd missing package myself from a Fedora SRPM. But the nvidia packages look a bit like a mess. DKMS has errors in the startup script (looking for a nonexistent log_action_msg and the likes), so I wonder if it's best to just download the driver from nvidia.com and build it myself.
Then I thought : I'd rather ask.
Cheers,
Niki
I use the driver from nvidia.com. The setup process is a no brainer.
----- Original Message ----- | On 11/12/10 23:34, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: | > Hi, | > | > What's the best (cleanest, easiest, whatever) way to install the | > proprietary | > NVidia driver on CentOS 5.5 ? Usually I'm using the RPMForge 3rd | > party repo | > and compile the odd missing package myself from a Fedora SRPM. But | > the nvidia | > packages look a bit like a mess. DKMS has errors in the startup | > script | > (looking for a nonexistent log_action_msg and the likes), so I | > wonder if it's | > best to just download the driver from nvidia.com and build it | > myself. | > | > Then I thought : I'd rather ask. | > | > Cheers, | > | > Niki | | I use the driver from nvidia.com. The setup process is a no brainer. | _______________________________________________ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I do similar. I have a script which calls the latest version of the driver installer only if it can't find a version of the driver for the running kernel. If it does it runs the installer with the -a -s -X options to build and configure X if not done already.
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On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 3:06 PM, James A. Peltier jpeltier@sfu.ca wrote:
| I use the driver from nvidia.com. The setup process is a no brainer.
This needs to be done for every kernel update.
I do similar. I have a script which calls the latest version of the driver installer only if it can't find a version of the driver for the running kernel. If it does it runs the installer with the -a -s -X options to build and configure X if not done already.
Yes, I used to automate that way on my systems. However, the advantage with the kmod package from ELRepo is that it is kernel version-independent, kABI-tracking, meaning it survives kernel updates transparently and it does not require development software such as gcc.
ELRepo keeps the Nvidia version up to date.
OK, too much advertisement. :-P
Akemi
From: Nicolas Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net
What's the best (cleanest, easiest, whatever) way to install the proprietary NVidia driver on CentOS 5.5 ? Usually I'm using the RPMForge 3rd party repo and compile the odd missing package myself from a Fedora SRPM. But the nvidia
packages look a bit like a mess. DKMS has errors in the startup script (looking for a nonexistent log_action_msg and the likes), so I wonder if it's
best to just download the driver from nvidia.com and build it myself.
I use dkms-nvidia-x11-drv and it works fine between kernel updates... While I know kmod is said to be better, last time I tried it, I failed to make it work. Maybe I will retry kmod later...
JD
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, John Doe wrote:
I use dkms-nvidia-x11-drv and it works fine between kernel updates... While I know kmod is said to be better, last time I tried it, I failed to make it work. Maybe I will retry kmod later...
I'd previously had an identical experience to yours with kmod-nvidia, but when I recently tried it all worked without a hitch. dkms-nvidia from rpmforge is just too far out of date now really.
jh
On 15/11/10 10:21, John Hodrien wrote:
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, John Doe wrote:
I use dkms-nvidia-x11-drv and it works fine between kernel updates... While I know kmod is said to be better, last time I tried it, I failed to make it work. Maybe I will retry kmod later...
I'd previously had an identical experience to yours with kmod-nvidia, but when I recently tried it all worked without a hitch. dkms-nvidia from rpmforge is just too far out of date now really.
The dkms driver is deprecated in favour of the elrepo kmod-nvidia driver.
If you have problems with the kmod-nvidia driver, please do subscribe and post to the elrepo mailing list and someone will be more than happy to assist you. Most problems are likely caused by not properly uninstalling any previous incarnations of the nvidia driver, be it dkms or the NVIDIA installer.
Thanks.
John Hodrien wrote:
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, John Doe wrote:
I use dkms-nvidia-x11-drv and it works fine between kernel updates... While I know kmod is said to be better, last time I tried it, I failed
to make
it work. Maybe I will retry kmod later...
I'd previously had an identical experience to yours with kmod-nvidia, but when I recently tried it all worked without a hitch. dkms-nvidia from
rpmforge
is just too far out of date now really.
Unless, of course, you have an old card that's not supported in the newer drivers.
mark, using the 173 nVidia proprietary driver for twinview
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:35 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
John Hodrien wrote:
I'd previously had an identical experience to yours with kmod-nvidia, but when I recently tried it all worked without a hitch. dkms-nvidia from
rpmforge
is just too far out of date now really.
Unless, of course, you have an old card that's not supported in the newer drivers.
mark, using the 173 nVidia proprietary driver for twinview
ELRepo provides, in addition to the latest, two older versions, 96xx and 173xx:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia-96xx http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia-173xx http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia ( <= latest )
They are all up to date. :-)
Akemi
Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:35 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
John Hodrien wrote:
I'd previously had an identical experience to yours with kmod-nvidia, but when I recently tried it all worked without a hitch. dkms-nvidia
from
rpmforge is just too far out of date now really.
Unless, of course, you have an old card that's not supported in the newer drivers.
mark, using the 173 nVidia proprietary driver for twinview
ELRepo provides, in addition to the latest, two older versions, 96xx and 173xx:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia-96xx http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia-173xx http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia ( <= latest )
They are all up to date. :-)
*sigh* I guess, when I'm not this busy, I'll try what I told my manager I'd try, which is to use el Repo...
mark
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