[CentOS] nvidia-installer

Wed Jun 26 11:33:53 UTC 2013
mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

On 06/24/13 21:21, Rob Kampen 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.

Ah! Thanks, Rob.

	mark

>> (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?