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. Akemi