[CentOS] trying to rebuild an old nvidia driver

[Ron Loftin]

On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 16:34 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> mark wrote:
> Akemi wrote:
> >> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:05 PM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> >>> Let me start by saying that no, I can't get a new card for my user.
> >
> >> No problem with that.
> >
> >>> So, I've got the 96 nvidia driver. I've rebuilt it several times before,
> >>> and Nvidia's installer's always worked fine. Actually, I have the 73
> on my
> >>> system, and just updated to 5.5, and no problem.
> >
> >> I suggest you give the ELRepo package a try:
> >
> >> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia-96xx
> 
> > Thanks! I'll try that tomorrow.
> 
> *sigh*
> Well, I did that, and then went through a song-and-dance uninstalling the
> stuff the nvidia installer had put in, and uninstalling this so that would
> succeed, and then *really* getting rid of the stuff it wouldn't, and then
> using yum again.
> 
> And it still got trash. My user's sure he had not turned it off, that he
> just came in one morning and it had lost it, and I have every reason to
> believe him (he *does* know what he's doing).
> 
> So, at this point, we've given up - his machine wasn't on a UPS, and given
> the power in this building, there's a high probability of a surge, and
> something on the card got fried - so he's got another machine, and we're
> probably going to call this one dead.
> 
> Thanks, though, for the el repo link. I've got to remember that one.

Yes, the ELrepo does some good work.  I'm quite happy with the nvidia
drivers since they survive kernel updates with minimal fuss.

> 
>        mark
> 
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