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? > Hi Sam, I would recommend the nvidia driver on RPMForge as it's a dkms-based driver, meaning that it gets automatically rebuilt upon a kernel upgrade. You'd need to enable the RPMForge repo, see here: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories and then install dkms and the nvidia driver for your card yum install dkms nvidia-x11-drv Check that the dkms_autoinstaller service is set to run at the appropriate run levels and you should be good to go (you may need to first uninstall the existing ATRpms driver package). Oh - you'll probably also need the devel stuff present on your system such as kernel-headers, kernel-devel and gcc etc for the driver to compile. Hope that helps.