On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 03:51 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 11:57 PM, John <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > *Grins*, Akemi > > > > ATRpms.net. > > > > To get a some sense of this mess one would have to; > > For 32bit Install 1. and 3.. For 64bit install 1. and 2.. This is > > what you were referring to correct? That you say you installed once? > > I am just referring to the Legacy Graphic Cards for instance, to get > > some idea from you about what you are talking about. > > > > http://atrpms.net/name/nvidia-graphics-legacy-71xx/ > > > > 1.http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/nvidia-graphics-legacy-71xx/nvidia-graphics71.86.04-71.86.04-93.el5.i386.rpm.html > > 2.http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/nvidia-graphics-legacy-71xx/nvidia-graphics71.86.04-kmdl-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5.centos.plus-71.86.04-93.el5.x86_64.rpm.html > > 3.http://dl.atrpms.net/all/nvidia-graphics71.86.04-kmdl-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5-71.86.04-93.el5.i686.rpm > > > > I did notice while I was browsing the site it seems that the > > the signed packages are expired. The package signature expired > > in December of 2007. I'm pickey... > > Signature:DSA/SHA1, Tue Feb 5 08:19:51 2008 ([expires: 2007-12-31]) > > There is also no yum repo configuration for RHEL 4 or 5, or for > > CentOS for that matter. So give me some more insight on this way > > of the driver install from ATrpms. Like how you would direct the user > > getting the appropiate files for the graphics cards. > > In principle, setting up the atrpms repo is not much different from > that for rpmforge. First read the Repositories wiki article and go to > http://atrpms.net/install.html for the instructions. Just like > rpmforge, CentOS-4 and -5 use .el4 and .el5, respictively. > > Once the repository has been set up, all you should do is: > yum install nvidia-graphics <--------We Hope! > That should resolve dependencies for you and install necessary > packages that matche your *running* kernel. > > There is a posting in the CentOS mailing list by Axel (atrpms > maintainer) with a brief explanation about the difference between > rpmforge and atrpms: > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-August/085287.html <-----I'll read over these later in the day. > > Two postings down in that thread, there is another one from him which > is worth the bookmark. It gives you some workaround for an error that > might occur when the above command is run for the first time. But we > can talk about it later. Will look for that also. > Akemi > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-docs mailing list > CentOS-docs at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs -- ~/john OpenPGP Sig:BA91F079