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

Mon Apr 23 20:00:33 UTC 2012
aurfalien <aurfalien at gmail.com>

On Apr 23, 2012, at 3:53 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:

> 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

Hi Akemi,

Yes i did that but a bit unstable.

Hoping some one had some insight.

Thanks for the reply though, I didn't expect any to be honest.

- aurf