On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 12:54 -0400, Sam Beam wrote: > Hi guys - brand new 5.1 install here and quite happy - but... > > The nv driver did not work at all for me, fritzy stripes and dots. This is a > GeForce 7300 LE which was working happily dual-head under FC6 with the livna > nvidia RPMs > > So I looked around and it seemed like the ATRpms repo via yum was the best > option for CentOS. This is what I installed, it worked great with the > xorg.conf from the old system. > > But then I did a 'yum update' to the system and got a new kernel from > centosplus (?). > > Now the nvidia module won't load. It's not happy with the new kernel. I am at > a loss as to how to make it happy? > > what is the best way to install the closed-source drivers? direct from nvidia? > recomplile them? Is there some gap between updates kernel and the atrpms > modules? > > and in advance I am SORRY if this has been beat to death. I know ~75% of the > traffic on the Fedora list was about nvidia woes and flames. Lame, but the > DRI does work well on these and my daughter likes to play games. > > best, > Sam Go get the driver for your card from http://nvidia.com . Put it in you root / and then telinit 3 at the cmd line. Then exec sh nvidea-driver-.0.0.0. It does work from centOS 4 - 5.1. "01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)" Mine is older then yours. You should need the newer driver. Exact link is: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ~/john OpenPGP Sig:BA91F079