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

[Phil Perry]

On 04/05/11 16:34, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> 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

Thanks.

Until someone can point us in the right direction, it's difficult to 
know how to proceed.

I would ask prospective users to try the nvidia installer and describe 
in detail what you need to do to get those drivers working, if indeed 
they do work on el6.