[CentOS] NVidia Quadro4 200/400 NVS CentoOS 4.4

Thu Apr 5 20:27:12 UTC 2007
David A. Woyciesjes <david.woyciesjes at yale.edu>

Jim Perrin wrote:
> On 4/5/07, David A. Woyciesjes <david.woyciesjes at yale.edu> wrote:
>>         I've put a Nvidia Quadro card in my machine. It was first 
>> detected as
>> Quadro4 200/400 NVS. I have the pigtail for dual monitors. I've tried
>> tweaking the xorg file to get it working, to no avail. So I then
>> downloaded the 9631 version driver from Nvidia. The readme for the newer
>> files said that they didn't support this card.
>>         I run the installer, it builds the module, but gets stopped at 
>> "-1
>> Invalid module format"
>>
>> Now, what to do?
> 
> You have to get the the latest legacy drivers for nvidia.
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-7184.html
> 
> They removed support for most of the 'older' video cards, so you have
> to get the archive driver release.
> 
	Same reaction, "-1 invalid module format". Has anyone gotten dual 
monitor to work on this card with the included nv driver?
	Also, livna.org shows rpms of these nvidia drivers for FC5. What are 
the odds they would work on CentOS 4.4?

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--- David Woyciesjes