[CentOS] Was, Re: Radeon HD 4550 driver, is nVidia drivers

Fri Oct 8 20:22:56 UTC 2010
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:00 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca> wrote:
>
>>  You can also use the nVidia driver package as part of rpmforge or
>>  rpmfusion which uses DKMS to build the driver for you on each reboot.
>
> You don't have to build for each kernel update if you use kernel
> version independent, kABI-tracking kmod packages from ELRepo:
>
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
>
> The DKMS version of Nvidia driver at rpmforge is not being actively
> maintained and will be deprecated in favor of kmods.

Um, has anyone successfully set up a twin-headed machine with the oss
driver for nvidia? With a second screen beside the first (sorry, monitor 1
to the right of monitor 0 <g>), not duplicating the first monitor?

        mark "why do you *think* I'm using the proprietary one?"