[CentOS] nvidia dual monitor setup centos howto

Tue Jun 16 08:59:31 UTC 2009
Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu at orgfarm.uu.se>

>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf
>Of Dave
>Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:43 AM
>To: CentOS mailing list
>Subject: Re: [CentOS] nvidia dual monitor setup centos howto
>
>>>Which versions of RH or FC correspond reasonably well to
>>>my version of centos?
>>>uname -a
>>>Linux  2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 #1 SMP Thu May 7 10:35:59 EDT 2009 x86_64
>>>x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>>
>> I use CentOS 5.3 i386/x86_64 flavours
>
>A typo erased part of the question (and more googling erased some of
>the need for it). I was originally asking what howtos to look at,
>since I couldn't find centos howtos. then I found wiki.centos.org.
>
>Is it really of no interest to anyone else which rev of RH corresponds
>to which rev of fedora and centos?

RHEL corresponds pretty well with CentOS, ie RHEL 5.3 is CentOS 5.3
basically. Who cares about Fedora anymore when there's CentOS? ;-)


>> Or if all else fails, why not get the proprietary Nvidia drivers?
>
>Well, all else did not fail. And they want me to run a script that
>does I don't know what, outside the record-keeping that goes with
>yum/rpm. Also, nvidia's web page made it sound like I was in for an
>editing session on xorg.conf, which is beyond me. Maybe I
>misunderstood.

The script with the proprietary Nvidia driver package is rock-solid AFAICT,
never had any problem with it. We used that on this department until I heard
about dkms and the dkms-Nvidia-package. No more need, ever, to rerun the
driver install, as is usually the case with the proprietary driver and a
kernel update. Dkms does all that for you.
-- 
/Sorin
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