[CentOS] VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 8:20 AM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> Valeri Galtsev wrote:

>> 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.
>
> 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).

I highly recommend that you install nvidia-detect [1] from ELRepo and run it.

Akemi

[1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/nvidia-detect