[CentOS] nvidia dual monitor setup centos howto

Wed Jun 17 07:18:55 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 Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
>Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:29 PM
>To: CentOS mailing list
>Subject: Re: [CentOS] nvidia dual monitor setup centos howto
>
>just to clear things up: the nvidia drivers available in rpmforge *are*
>the proprietary nvidia drivers. They're just conveniently packaged in an
>rpm, and use dkms for auto-rebuilding. And they don't upgrade to the
>latest version every time nvidia releases one, which can be good or bad
>depending on your needs.
>This is true both for nvidia-x11-drv and dkms-nvidia-x11-drv: the latter
>is simply a newer version with a name change, and it's the one you
>should use (but anyways if you installed the older package yum upgrade
>should offer to upgrade to dkms-*).

Yeah, sorry for not being clear on that, it slipped my mind. 8-}

I suggested the proprietary drivers, because sometimes you want to remove a
layer of complexity with dkms (problems happen...), and just use the
proprietary drivers as is.
-- 
/Sorin
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