[CentOS] trying to rebuild an old nvidia driver

Ron Loftin reloftin at twcny.rr.com
Thu May 20 20:57:46 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 13:44 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Ron Loftin <reloftin at twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 16:34 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> >> mark wrote:
> >> Akemi wrote:
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> Sorry to hear that the problem was more serious than initially thought.
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> s/some good/excellent/
> 
> s/minimal/no/
> 
> Couldn't resist ... :-P

The only reason I didn't say that myself is that my experience with
ELrepo is pretty much limited to the nvidia driver.  I don't have any
other need for drivers outside of what CentOS provides, and I don't want
to scare away the users by being overly enthusiastic. 8^>

> 
> Akemi
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