[elrepo] elrepo Digest, Vol 11, Issue 1

Wed May 12 04:01:13 EDT 2010

Thank you Mike and Phil!
Still got a couple of questions for you...
First of all, if something goes wrong, would it be enough to roll back to working configuration with nv open source driver restoring the previously saved xorg.conf? How should I uninstall the driver installed through yum, since i don't think it has an uninstall procedure as the nvidia official one?
I'm going to give it a try, i will let you know about the results!
Bye
D.

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> Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 18:27:53 +0200
> From: Daniele Capocelli <danielecapocelli at hotmail.com>
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> 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.
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> Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 11:44:52 -0500
> From: Mike Hanby <mhanby at uab.edu>
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> I'm using the following ELRepo packages:
> kmod-nvidia-190.53-1.el5.elrepo
> nvidia-x11-drv-190.53-1.el5.elrepo
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> On my 64bit CentOS 5.4 system 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5
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> Not a direct comparison, but might help ease your fears :-)
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> Before installing the ELRepo drivers, I'd recommend that you uninstall the nVidia (non RPM) version:
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> $ sudo /sbin/init 3
> # nvidia-uninstall
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> Then install the repo packages and reboot.
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> From: elrepo-bounces at lists.elrepo.org [mailto:elrepo-bounces at lists.elrepo.org] On Behalf Of Daniele Capocelli
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> 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.
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> Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 19:10:25 +0100
> From: Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org>
> Subject: Re: [elrepo] Info Request
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> 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.
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> 
> 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.
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