[CentOS] Re: Switching from Vesa driver to video adapter driver fails

[Edward Diener]

Ted Miller wrote:
> Edward Diener wrote:
>> Ted Miller wrote:
>>> Edward Diener wrote:
>>>> The Vesa driver works fine with CentOS 4.4. I have an NVidia 6200 
>>>> video adapter. I go to Applications | System Settings | Display | 
>>>> Hardware tab and find my video adapter in the list and set it. The 
>>>> dialog tells me I have to log out for it to take effect, so I duly 
>>>> do that. I then getting a message from a non-graphics screen saying 
>>>> that the attempt to switch to the video adapter failed. 
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> Use the vesa driver or use the proprietary nvidia driver.  The nv 
>>> driver from xorg (or at least the version(s) supplies with Centos 4 
>>> do not support my 6200 card.  No amount of fiddling made any 
>>> difference.  The proprietary driver supports it very nicely (if your 
>>> computing philosophy allows you to use  it).
>>
>> My computing philosophy certainly allows me to use it. I view the GPL, 
>> all offshoots of it, and everyone involved with the mess it has 
>> created, as just a very small part of the next generation of petty 
>> dictators, read "idiots" or in Alexander Pope's still relevant 
>> terminology "dunces", in the world.
>>
>> By proprietary driver do you mean the one on NVidia's web site ?
> 
> That's the one! :)  Make sure you have the kernel-devel rpm that EXACTLY 
> MATCHES your running kernel, as the nvidia package compiles some kind of 
> a shim that goes between your kernel and their driver.
> 
> Also, before you upgrade the kernel next time, change back to the VESA 
> driver, as you will need to recompile the shim for the new kernel.  Not 
> a big deal, just a show-stopper as far as Xwindows goes.
> 
> My card is a Gigabyte GV-NX62128D that I run dual-monitor, and it works 
> very well for me.

Thanks for the information. I will find the one on NVidia's site and 
install it. Sorry for the GPL blast.