[CentOS] NOUVEAU driver video acceleration

Mon Jan 16 05:06:39 UTC 2012
Mark LaPierre <marklapier at aol.com>

On 01/15/2012 11:31 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> Mark LaPierre wrote on 01/15/2012 09:57 PM:
>> I enabled both epel and rpmforge.
> Neither of the above.  You need http://elrepo.org.
>
> # yum --disablerepo \* --enablerepo elrepo\* list \*nvidia\*
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, refresh-packagekit, security
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>    * elrepo: mirror.symnds.com
>    * elrepo-extras: mirror.symnds.com
>    * elrepo-kernel: mirror.symnds.com
>    * elrepo-testing: mirror.symnds.com
> Installed Packages
> kmod-nvidia.x86_64                    290.10-1.el6.elrepo         @elrepo
> nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64                 290.10-1.el6.elrepo         @elrepo
> Available Packages
> kmod-nvidia-173xx.x86_64              173.14.31-1.el6.elrepo      elrepo
> kmod-nvidia-96xx.x86_64               96.43.20-1.el6.elrepo
> elrepo-testing
> nvidia-x11-drv-173xx.x86_64           173.14.31-1.el6.elrepo      elrepo
> nvidia-x11-drv-173xx-32bit.x86_64     173.14.31-1.el6.elrepo      elrepo
> nvidia-x11-drv-32bit.x86_64           290.10-1.el6.elrepo         elrepo
> nvidia-x11-drv-96xx.x86_64            96.43.20-1.el6.elrepo
> elrepo-testing
> nvidia-x11-drv-96xx-32bit.x86_64      96.43.20-1.el6.elrepo
> elrepo-testing
>
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia-96xx
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia-173xx
>
> Phil
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Hey Phil,

Thanks for the response.


I did this:

[root at mushroom yum.repos.d]# rpm --import 
http://elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org
[root at mushroom yum.repos.d]# rpm -Uvh 
http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-5-3.el5.elrepo.noarch.rpm
Retrieving http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-5-3.el5.elrepo.noarch.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### 
[100%]
    1:elrepo-release         ########################################### 
[100%]
[root at mushroom yum.repos.d]# yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=elrepo\* 
install kmod-nvidia*
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
  * elrepo: mirror.symnds.com
  * elrepo-extras: mirror.symnds.com
  * elrepo-kernel: mirror.symnds.com
  * elrepo-testing: mirror.symnds.com
elrepo-extras 
                                                                       | 
1.9 kB     00:00
elrepo-extras/primary_db 
                                                                       | 
  28 kB     00:00
elrepo-kernel 
                                                                       | 
1.9 kB     00:00
elrepo-kernel/primary_db 
                                                                       | 
5.4 kB     00:00
elrepo-testing 
                                                                       | 
1.9 kB     00:00
elrepo-testing/primary_db 
                                                                       | 
108 kB     00:00
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-nvidia.i686 0:290.10-1.el5.elrepo will be installed

I got a whole truck load of errors complaining about not having rhel5 
kernel packages.

Error: Package: kmod-nvidia-290.10-1.el5.elrepo.i686 (elrepo)
            Requires: kernel(rhel5_drivers_pci_ga) = 
33d9e0612417f727a0d8311c229fe8a80c65bb65


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