[elrepo] Nvidia 8400 GS drivers

[Akemi Yagi]

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 11:44 AM, John Kissell <kissellj at ecentral.com> wrote:
> Thanks for elrepo. This is new to me and am having issues getting this
> elrepo configured for my CentOS6. I started by importing the key and then
> installing ELRepo for CentOS6. I'm not sure what installed and is this a GUI
> interface? Do I need to reboot before I see this? Also it says to please
> install yum-plugin-fastestmirror. How do you do this and where do you get
> the file to install? I found one fastest in my Add/Remove Software but I get
> an error saying "Trying to remove "yum", which is protected so it fails. I'm
> looking for video drivers for Nvidia 8400 GS. I found a nvidia-detect on the
> ElRepo site and am wondering how and where you get this command or the
> package to install so you can run this utility.

No GUI required. Just run:

rpm --import https://www.elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org
rpm -Uvh http://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-6.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm
yum install yum-plugin-fastestmirror

For Nvidia,  run:

yum install nvidia-detect

and see this wiki for more details:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/nvidia-detect

Hope this helps,

Akemi