>-----Original Message----- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Nicolas Thierry-Mieg >Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:29 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] nvidia dual monitor setup centos howto > >just to clear things up: the nvidia drivers available in rpmforge *are* >the proprietary nvidia drivers. They're just conveniently packaged in an >rpm, and use dkms for auto-rebuilding. And they don't upgrade to the >latest version every time nvidia releases one, which can be good or bad >depending on your needs. >This is true both for nvidia-x11-drv and dkms-nvidia-x11-drv: the latter >is simply a newer version with a name change, and it's the one you >should use (but anyways if you installed the older package yum upgrade >should offer to upgrade to dkms-*).
Yeah, sorry for not being clear on that, it slipped my mind. 8-} I suggested the proprietary drivers, because sometimes you want to remove a layer of complexity with dkms (problems happen...), and just use the proprietary drivers as is. -- /Sorin
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