On Wed, May 6, 2015 10:20 am, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> <rant> >> >> I have a couple of boxes with NVIDIA cards and fancy screen setup. I >> have >> to use NVIDIA proprietary driver, open source driver does not support >> configuration. Darn Nvidia never released enough information about their > <snip> >> Now, back to my boxes. NVIDIA declared these fancy cards obsolete (the >> are >> only about 6 years old, and hardware still does appropriate job for what >> we need). There is no proprietary NVIDIA driver which you can install >> with >> latest kernels (latest speaking CentOS 6 kernels). You know you have to >> compile kernel interface for their binary driver. No way: no updated >> binary driver for these my obsoleted by NVIDIA cards. So, NVIDIA locked >> me >> on these boxes to older kernel. > <snip> >> </rant> > > There is a proprietary driver package that you can build that will support > them. I have a Guadro 4000 aka GL100GL on my workstation, and am running > 6.6 current, and NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.40.run, which you can still d/l > from NVida's site, for it (I need the proprietary for two screens). > > Hope that helps. > > mark Thanks Mark! Will try. As someone said: you don't need to know everything. You just need to know right person to ask ;-) Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++