[elrepo] kmod-nvidia: display not found

[Todd And Margo Chester]

On 03/24/2012 02:23 PM, 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?
>

My video card is an eVGA GTX460.  If I go to nVidia's download site,
the 275 & 295 drivers cover the GTX460

I will look in messages