Announcing the release of new nvidia-detect packages into the EL5 and
EL6 elrepo repositories:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/nvidia-detect
nvidia-detect is a utility to detect supported NVIDIA graphics cards and
recommend the correct NVIDIA graphics driver to use.
The following updated packages are available to install:
EL5:
nvidia-detect-331.20-1.el5.elrepo.i386.rpm
nvidia-detect-331.20-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
nvidia-detect-331.20-1.el5.elrepo.src.rpm
EL6:
nvidia-detect-331.20-1.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm
nvidia-detect-331.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
nvidia-detect-331.20-1.el6.elrepo.src.rpm
This release adds detection for supported hardware added to the upstream
331.20 driver release.
In addition, a number of new features have been added as described below:
1. Running nvidia-detect with the --list command line argument lists all
supported devices for all upstream drivers. This feature is useful when
used in combination with grep to search for a specific hardware device.
For example, want to know if that GTX690 is supported:
$ nvidia-detect --list | grep 690
[10de:1188] NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 690]
2. Xorg Server compatibility tests. nvidia-detect now performs Xorg
Server compatibility tests to determine if the driver for the detected
device supports the current Xorg Server. By default nvidia-detect will
warn the user if the compatibility tests fail. If you wish to see the
results from the Xorg Server compatibility tests then run nvidia-detect
with the --xorg command line argument:
$ nvidia-detect --xorg
Probing for supported NVIDIA devices...
[10de:0ca3] NVIDIA Corporation GT215 [GeForce GT 240]
This device requires the current 331.20 NVIDIA driver kmod-nvidia
Checking ABI compatibility with Xorg Server...
Xorg Video Driver ABI detected: 13
ABI compatibility check passed
These compatibility tests were introduced as Red Hat has recently been
updating the Xorg Server in RHEL6. For example, the Xorg Server in
RHEL6.4 was updated to version 13 but the older 96.xx legacy NVIDIA
drivers only support an Xorg ABI of up to 12 resulting in an
incompatibility. nvidia-detect will now check for such incompatibilities
when making driver recommendations.
The nvidia-detect project is maintained at our github repository and
contributions are welcome:
https://github.com/elrepo/packages/tree/master/nvidia-detect
Bugs for nvidia-detect should be reported at http://elrepo.org/bugs
Thank you,
The ELRepo Team.
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