[elrepo] kmod-nvidia: display not found

[Dag Wieers]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, Gena Makhomed wrote:

> On 24.03.2012 3:17, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>
>> Under 6.1, I was able to run the nvidia-x11-drv from elrepo. As of 6.2 I
>> no longer can. These are the RPMs I am using:
>>
>> kmod-nvidia-295.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>> nvidia-x11-drv-295.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>> nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-295.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> Note: 275.21 gives the same symptoms: Display not found
>
> look at /var/log/messages, lines like this are present?
>
>  kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X GPU installed in
> this system is
>  kernel: NVRM:  supported through the NVIDIA 96.43.xx Legacy drivers.
> Please
>  kernel: NVRM:  visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
>  kernel: NVRM:  information.  The 295.20 NVIDIA driver will ignore
>  kernel: NVRM:  this GPU.  Continuing probe...
>  kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
>
> I have idea make driver kmod-nvidia96 for such "old" hardware,
> but not have many free time right now...
>
> may be people from elrepo project can build kmod-nvidia96
> with NVIDIA 96.43.xx Legacy drivers for "old" nVidia hardware?

You mean: http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia-96xx

Find it in your EL5 and EL6 (testing) repository yesterday ! ;-)

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