[elrepo] Request for NVidia legacy (96xx) driver for SL 6

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Nicolas Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr> wrote:
> Le 13/04/2011 20:10, Phil Perry a écrit :
>> On 13/04/11 12:30, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:

>> It's already there, in the testing repository.
>>
>> yum --enablerepo=elrepo\* install kmod-nvidia-96xx
>>
>> If you can confirm they behave as expected then I'll promote them to the
>> main repository, just I don't think anyone's confirmed they are OK yet.
>>
>> BTW, these packages expect to find NO /etc/x11/xorg.conf file. If for
>> any reason you have an /etc/x11/xorg.conf file please back it up and
>> remove it before installing kmod-nvidia, e.g,
>>
>> mv /etc/x11/xorg.conf /etc/x11/xorg.conf.backup
>> yum --enablerepo=elrepo\* install kmod-nvidia-96xx
>>
>> and reboot after installation.
>
> Hi,
>
> Unfortunately I've had no luck with this driver. The testing machine has
> been running a few Linuxes (Slackware, CentOS, Fedora, Arch, Gentoo,
> openSUSE, Ubuntu) over the years, so I'm quite proficient in setting up
> quirky hardware (only to say "not my fault" :oD).
>
> I keep getting :
>
> Fatal server error:
> No screens found
>
> ... and I don't have the slightest idea why. Yes, I thought about
> rebooting after install. Also checked if 'nouveau' was blacklisted OK,
> so as not to interfere.
>
> But then, maybe it's time to settle for the 'nouveau' driver, since
> results are more than OK, and I don't really need 3D, since I intend to
> use it on *work*stations.

I've just heard from another person who tested the 96xx driver on
EL6.0 (personal communication).  It did not work for him either.

So, maybe this driver should be removed from the repo (even though it
says "testing").

Akemi