>> 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. Aren't the dependencies still the same? I think they are explicitly spesified in the spec file of the source rpm?