[elrepo] Info Request

[Phil Perry]

Daniele Capocelli wrote:
> hello everybody.
> I'm having some issues trying to install nvidia proprietary driver on a Centos 5.4 32bit system (using kernel: 2.6.18-164.el5PAE), since with the latest version downloaded from nvidia.com i wasn't able to obtain a working X server. My system has a dual FX 570 configuration (it's a Dell Workstation). I was wondering if i would have been able to get it working through the drivers in the elrepo repository, but before giving it a try (and possibly messin' up my linuxbox again), i would like to know if there's anyone using a configuration similar to mine.
> Thank you everybody
> D.
>  		 	   		  

Hi Daniele,

I don't have an Nvidia FX 570 card, but it is listed as supported by the 
latest nvidia driver. I assume it's definitely an "FX 570", and not an 
older "FX 5700" which is only supported by the older legacy 173.xx 
driver series.

Next up, as you're running a PAE kernel, you will need the corresponding 
PAE driver, so for you the latest driver would be:

http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/i386/RPMS/kmod-nvidia-PAE-195.36.24-1.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm

After you have elrepo set up, you should be able to install with:

yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-nvidia-PAE 
nvidia-x11-drv

I would strongly recommend that you first uninstall all previous nvidia 
proprietary drivers.

If you have a working Xorg.conf using the default "nv" driver then the 
update should be straight forward. Once you've installed the elrepo 
nvidia drivers, please reboot the machine to load the new drivers. If 
you still have issues, I would strip it right back to a simple 
configuration with just one card/monitor, get the new drivers working 
and then tweak your dual card setup as you want.

Hope that helps.

Phil

PS - Please note that the PAE driver will *only* work with PAE kernels 
and not with non-PAE kernels.