----- Original Message ----- | On 11/12/10 23:34, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: | > Hi, | > | > What's the best (cleanest, easiest, whatever) way to install the | > proprietary | > NVidia driver on CentOS 5.5 ? Usually I'm using the RPMForge 3rd | > party repo | > and compile the odd missing package myself from a Fedora SRPM. But | > the nvidia | > packages look a bit like a mess. DKMS has errors in the startup | > script | > (looking for a nonexistent log_action_msg and the likes), so I | > wonder if it's | > best to just download the driver from nvidia.com and build it | > myself. | > | > Then I thought : I'd rather ask. | > | > Cheers, | > | > Niki | | I use the driver from nvidia.com. The setup process is a no brainer. | _______________________________________________ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS at centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I do similar. I have a script which calls the latest version of the driver installer only if it can't find a version of the driver for the running kernel. If it does it runs the installer with the -a -s -X options to build and configure X if not done already. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com