I need to update the driver for the  NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 card.  The
computer is a 64-bit RHEL5 from Dell.
Dell does not have any driver updates.


>From the NVIDIA site I downloaded the .run file.  I found instructions on
GPUGrid.net:
* Download the drivers from the NVIDIA
website<http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html>into a directory
(for instance /tmp)
* Press ctrl-alt-F1, a text login screen will appear
* login as root
* type "init 3" to stop the X server
* type "sh NVIDIA....pkg.run" to install the driver from the directory where
you had downloaded it
* answer yes to all questions from the installer
* type "init 5"
* press "ctrl-alt-F7" to get back to X Windows

>From what I read on the web, the driver needs to be recompiled after each
new kernel.  How does one do that?


But I also found a thread from this February on the kmod-nvidia packages on
ElRepo that avoids the recompilation.
Unfortunately, the FX 4600 card is not on the list (including the legacy
ones).

So it looks that my only option is to install the driver from NVIDIA?

Any other thoughts?

Thanks,

Mirko
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