Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-04-01 Thread Niki Kovacs
John a écrit : But understand this now. When you do that your not building against the newest kernel. Thus you will have inconsistent modulesand run into problems. It is meant to work by building against the newest kernel. I don't see the real point in that from a security standpoint in having

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-04-01 Thread John
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 17:03 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > John a écrit : > > > > > He built it like so: > > Me built it almost like so. > > > #telinit 3 > > #sh nvidia-linux-version-number > > #then you get a text gui > > #he let it build the kernel module > > #then it asks do you want to me to

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-04-01 Thread Niki Kovacs
John a écrit : He built it like so: Me built it almost like so. #telinit 3 #sh nvidia-linux-version-number #then you get a text gui #he let it build the kernel module #then it asks do you want to me to update you xorg.conf. #selected yes selected no. I always edit xorg.conf by hand anywa

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-04-01 Thread John
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 07:47 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 7:08 AM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/96.43.05/README/README.txt > > > > Apparently it will auto download the newer drivers. He's in luck. The > > ReadME discu

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-04-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 7:08 AM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/96.43.05/README/README.txt > > Apparently it will auto download the newer drivers. He's in luck. The > ReadME discusses the utility to do that. This is about new releases/versions

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-04-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:59 AM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 06:26 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:14 AM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 14:18 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > > > > > > > > So I went to www.nvidia.com,

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-04-01 Thread John
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 06:08 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So I went to www.nvidia.com, downloaded the package and built it myself. > > Works like a charm. And updates end up in weak-updates anyway :oD > > > > Niki > > H

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-04-01 Thread John
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 06:26 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:14 AM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 14:18 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > > > > > > So I went to www.nvidia.com, downloaded the package and built it myself. > > > Works like a charm. And upda

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-04-01 Thread John
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 06:26 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:14 AM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 14:18 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > > > > > > So I went to www.nvidia.com, downloaded the package and built it myself. > > > Works like a charm. And upda

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-04-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:14 AM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 14:18 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > > > > So I went to www.nvidia.com, downloaded the package and built it myself. > > Works like a charm. And updates end up in weak-updates anyway :oD > > > > Niki > > Right

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-04-01 Thread John
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 14:18 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Sam Beam a écrit : > > Hi guys - brand new 5.1 install here and quite happy - but... > > > > The nv driver did not work at all for me, fritzy stripes and dots. This is > > a > > GeForce 7300 LE which was working happily dual-head under FC6

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-04-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I went to www.nvidia.com, downloaded the package and built it myself. > Works like a charm. And updates end up in weak-updates anyway :oD > > Niki How did you built it, more specifically, in such a way that updates en

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-04-01 Thread Niki Kovacs
Sam Beam a écrit : Hi guys - brand new 5.1 install here and quite happy - but... The nv driver did not work at all for me, fritzy stripes and dots. This is a GeForce 7300 LE which was working happily dual-head under FC6 with the livna nvidia RPMs I tried the nvidia dkms driver from rpmforge

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-04-01 Thread John
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 12:54 -0400, Sam Beam wrote: > Hi guys - brand new 5.1 install here and quite happy - but... > > The nv driver did not work at all for me, fritzy stripes and dots. This is a > GeForce 7300 LE which was working happily dual-head under FC6 with the livna > nvidia RPMs > > So

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-03-31 Thread Ned Slider
Sam Beam wrote: Thanks Ned that works great! I'd never heard of dkms before. the best! Glad you got it working. For reference: http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#dkms but I confess to not really understanding how it works, just that it does! for the record, here is what I did since I wa

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-03-31 Thread Sam Beam
On Monday 31 March 2008 14:02, Ned Slider wrote: > Sam Beam wrote: > > what is the best way to install the closed-source drivers? direct from > > nvidia? recomplile them? Is there some gap between updates kernel and the > > atrpms modules? > > Hi Sam, > > I would recommend the nvidia driver on RPMF

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-03-31 Thread Ned Slider
Sam Beam wrote: Hi guys - brand new 5.1 install here and quite happy - but... The nv driver did not work at all for me, fritzy stripes and dots. This is a GeForce 7300 LE which was working happily dual-head under FC6 with the livna nvidia RPMs So I looked around and it seemed like the ATRpm