[CentOS] nvidia drivers

Thu Mar 29 15:13:11 UTC 2007
Tony <pthagonal at gmail.com>

On 3/29/07, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> wrote:
> Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> >>It won't compile on a Xen enabled kernel ...
> >>
> >
> > what version are you using ? I've got the nvidia drivers working for me
> > here on the Xen kernel ( x86_64 ) but I've not downloaded a newer one,
> > so whatever was on my machine from months back, just rebuilt and works.
>
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9755-pkg2.run. That one detects that the kernel
> is Xen-enabled and advises you to a) turn off Xen or b) revert to the nv
> driver.
>
> And as I really would like to have Xen and *bling* ...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ralph
>

Have a read of http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=85037
- there's a patch for 9746 there which lets you install it on a xen
kernel. I've not spotted one for 9755 anywhere yet but that's what I
used to get dual head going properly when I had a quick play with the
c5 beta.

Cheers,

Tony.