On 06/25/2013 07:36 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > CentOS 6.4 > > Came back from vacation, rebooted workstation, no X. Wound up running > nvidia-installer. Now, I had been using kmod-nvidia, but had to stop a > month or so ago, when NVidia stopped supporting my two-yr-old card > ("legacy"). When that happened, I uninstalled kmod-nvidia. > > One dumb question: I can't figure out where I got nvidia-installer. It > happily d/l the most current valid version with --update, which it tells > me (with --help) that it goes to ftp://download/nvidia.com. -v tells me > nvidia-installer: version 319.23 I use elrepo and have nvidia-x11-drv version 319.23-1.el6.elrepo x88_64 installed - they also provide older variants i.e. 173.14.36-1 96.43.20-1 (for the REALLY OLD cards) and 304.88-1 all available in 64 and 32 bit variants. Their rpms seem to deal with new kernel updates just fine. > (buildmeister at swio-display-x86-rhel47-11) Thu > May 16 20:17:29 PDT 2013 > The NVIDIA Software Installer for Unix/Linux. > > This program is used to install, upgrade and uninstall The NVIDIA > Accelerated > Graphics Driver Set for Linux-x86_64. > > Copyright (C) 2003 - 2010 NVIDIA Corporation. > > Any clues? > > mark > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos