On Monday 31 March 2008 14:02, Ned Slider wrote: > Sam Beam wrote: > > 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. Thanks Ned that works great! I'd never heard of dkms before. the best! for the record, here is what I did since I was already running under the new updated kernel: 1) add the RPMforge repo per the http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories link with "priority=N" add to each /etc/yum.repos.d/*conf as instructed 2) yum erase existing nvidia* rpms 3) "yum install nvidia-x11-drv nvidia-x11-drv-96xx dkms" ok, easy. then I had to figure out how to make dkms build and load up modules that would work under the running kernel: 4) dkms build -m nvidia -v 1.0.9755-1.nodist.rf 5) dkms install -m nvidia -v 1.0.9755-1.nodist.rf 6) startx all is well! will test the autoinstaller later. This rocks thanks