[CentOS] NVidia Quadro4 200/400 NVS CentoOS 4.4

Mon Apr 9 21:05:33 UTC 2007
David A. Woyciesjes <david.woyciesjes at yale.edu>

Michael Velez wrote:
>  
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> 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?
>>
> 
> Are you using an old kernel or do you not have the latest version of gcc?  I
> think (I'm not absolutely sure) "invalid module format" means the version of
> gcc used to compile your kernel is not the same version as the one you're
> using to compile the nvidia driver.
> 
> This could be either because you're using an old kernel or old gcc.  Try to
> update both and recompile the driver.
> 
> I use an nvidia NVS 280 on my centos 4.4 and it works fine.
> 
> Michael

	Well, no updates for either in yum. Kernel is 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp. gcc 
is v 3.4.6....

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--- David Woyciesjes