On 06/25/13 01:58, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com> > wrote: >> 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. > > To determine which version to use, you can install the nvidia-detect > package from ELRepo and run it. It will display something similar to > this: > > $ nvidia-detect Probing for supported NVIDIA devices... [10de:0640] > NVIDIA Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] This device requires the current > 319.17 NVIDIA driver (kmod-nvidia). > > The output tells you the latest 319.x series is appropriate (forget the > .17 part. The current is .23) for my Nvidia card. Far out! That I didn't know about. Thanks, Akemi, mark