On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Akemi Yagi <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Mirko Vukovic <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Akemi Yagi <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I just checked the Nvidia site. Your card Quadro 4600 is supported by > >> the regular driver, not the -173 version. > >> > >> Akemi > > > > So, just to make things explicit (sorry for being dense) > > > > On this NVIDIA page: > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-173.14.30-driver.html, > I > > see the > > quadro fx 4600. > > Interesting. I started with the download page: > > http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us > > and entered Quadro FX 4600. That led me to: > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-275.19-driver.html > > It indeeds lists the Quadro FX4600. If this card is supported by both > -275 and -173, then either kmod would work (kmod-nvidia or > kmod-nvidia-173). > > > I conclude that: > > - the card is not yet legacy > > - it is supported by kmod-nvidia > > > > Finally, should I uninstall the previous driver before installing the new > > one? (Using the driver's rpm that came with the system) > > If you want to switch from kmod-nvidia-173 to kmod-nvidia, for > example, then first uninstall the first one by: > > yum remove kmod-nvidia-173xx nvidia-x11-drv-173xx > > then install kmod-nvidia by following the instructions on the ELRepo's web > site. > > Akemi > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > I uninstalled the old driver and installed the new one from my XWindows terminal. Things look good, but I wonder if I was careless and lucky. I am guessing that I was replacing in-use files. I saw a few messages that "this module version was active in the kernel" Here is my question: Should I have switched runlevel to get out of Xwindows, and do the whole procedure there? Thanks, Mirko
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