On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Andreas Reschke <[email protected]> wrote: > > [email protected] schrieb am 20.07.2011 15:56:00: >> Mirko Vukovic <[email protected]> >> Gesendet von: [email protected]
>> [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 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 > Hi Mirko, > > have you try it with http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia-173xx > > I think it should work with all Quadro FX Cards, > > Greeting > Andreas Hi Mirko, Because you have already installed the Nvidia driver manually, I recommend you also read: http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia and uninstall the installed driver first before installing the mod-nvidia-173xx package. As you noted, ELRepo's driver survives kernel updates transparently, so no need to reinstall for each kernel update. Akemi _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
