Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf >> Of Scott Silva >> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:19 PM >> To: centos at centos.org >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers >> >> on 4-6-2009 5:55 AM Sorin Srbu spake the following: >>> I got the DKMS-system working and now have the Nvidia-drivers v173.08 >>> installed (using rpmforge as suggested previously). Unfortunately this >>> particular driver version gives me screen artifacts so as to make the >>> screen >>> more or less unreadable. >>> >> You could always try and make a newer version yourself using the old one as a >> template. Here is some help; >> >> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6896 >> >> http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/1q04-ler.pdf >> >> http://linux.dell.com/dkms/dkms-ols2004.pdf > > Ok, thanks. I'll see if I can some sense of the instructions. 8-) > > Strangely enough, only the systems running an Amd cpu gives the screen > artefacts. Go figure... What the artifacts? I switched to the DKMS module in rpmforge and am running an AMD CPU. Only think I've noticed is a weird issue with the cursor in thunderbird, I don't know if that is nvidia related or not though. It is annoying and I don't recall it being there before I updated the driver. Asus M2N board AMD X2 CPU (I think a 5200 - I forget - 2.6 GHz) nVidia Corporation NV42 [GeForce 6800 XT] (rev a2) nvidia-x11-drv-173.08-1.beta.el5.rf kernel 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 x86_64