Mark Hull-Richter wrote: > On 5/22/07, Dick Roth <raroth7 at comcast.net> wrote: >> >> >> Glad to hear from you, Mark. >> >> I was surprised to hear that you rebuilt the driver. I tried to attach >> the packaged (.run) driver I downloaded from Nvidia, but it was too >> large to send. Not sure which way to go at this point. Advice would be >> appreciated. >> > > This is the name of the .run file I have: > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9755-pkg2.run > > If you've never built this before, you need to have the kernel headers > installed in order to rebuild the driver. For some reason my system > can't seem to locate nvidia's web site from run level 3, so it just > builds the driver locally - works for me, ymmv. > > I'm guessing that you know how to run this already - if your machine > can download the driver from nvidia, I'd use that one and not rebuild. > In fact, I probably could have just copied the driver over from my > 8.1.3 modules library to the 8.1.4 one (didn't think of that one...). > Thank you, Mark, for helping me get my thinker going again (it was asleep). It didn't occur to me, while first installing the driver, that it was building modules! Duh!! I went to init 3, reinstalled the driver, reset inttab to rl 5...tada!! Works like a champ. Have a great evening. Thank you CentOS!! -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin 1775