[CentOS] Centos 6.2 Nvidia drivers from elrepo - kmod-nvidia

Mon Apr 23 19:53:54 UTC 2012
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:40 PM, aurfalien <aurfalien at gmail.com> wrote:

> So after I do yum install kmod-nvidia and rebooting, I get no screen.
>
> My errors;
>
> /var/log/messages;
>
> kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 GPU installed in this system is
> kernel: NVRM:  supported through the NVIDIA 96.43.xx Legacy drivers. Please
> kernel: NVRM:  visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
> kernel: NVRM:  information.  The 295.40 NVIDIA driver will ignore
> kernel: NVRM:  this GPU.  Continuing probe...
  (snip)
> Any ideas?

Yes. As the error message says ... You need to install the legacy
driver (96xx), not the 295.40 NVIDIA driver.

Please see:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia-96xx

Akemi