We run some NVIDIA cards and after you take a kernel package you will have to 
rerun that NVIDIA installer so keep it handy.

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Mirko Vukovic
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 8:56 AM
To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list
Subject: [rhelv5-list] Updating driver for NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

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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