Timo Neuvonen wrote: > Is there a way to use "Nouveau" (open source Nvidia) driver in CentOS 5 ? > > "nv" seems to support only the lowest resolutions thru the dvi output (NV44 > chip), and I don't like the idea of installing propiertary Nvidia drivers. > This way I came to Nouveau. > > I had a look at some Fedora rpms, but they needed something CentOS > obviously doesn't have: > > # rpm -ivh xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-2.1.6-1.fc8.x86_64.rpm > kernel-drm-nouveau = 10 is needed by xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-2.1.6-1.fc8.x86_64 > you can't use RPMs built for a different OS distribution, you'd need to take the SRPM and rebuild/recompile it.