Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] nvidia mess, Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?
On 01/25/2013 02:28 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:19:14PM -0800, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: 3) nvidia and elrepo make a mess of the information on which cards are supported by which drivers. To elaborate: http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia The grand total of information on supported video cards is this: Supported Chipsets This driver is the current release and supports the most recent NVIDIA graphics cards (GeForce 8 series GPUs onwards, as well as Quadro series). Users of cards based on older chipsets should use one of the following legacy drivers. This is not helpful information. GeForce210 cards I bought in December are recent or not? Are they 8 series and onward or not? They are not listed in the legacy lists, is it an omission or have I dodged a bullet today or not? Nvidia has a helpful compatibility page (google result #2 for nvidia linux drivers): http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us Please don't hold the ELRepo folks accountable for changes NVidia makes. They are graciously donating their time to make these packages. Pat -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux Developer
Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] nvidia mess, Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 02:35:27PM -0600, Pat Riehecky wrote: Nvidia has a helpful compatibility page (google result #2 for nvidia linux drivers): http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us Not so helpful as to provide the actual list of supported products. Since I have nothing better to do today, I eventually found the actual list at: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-310.32-driver.html By luck, it's the list for the same version of the driver as was helpfully pushed into my computers by elrepo: iris01:~$ rpm -q kmod-nvidia kmod-nvidia-310.32-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 I vote to have it linked from http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia Please don't hold the ELRepo folks accountable for changes NVidia makes. They are graciously donating their time to make these packages. Yes, as I said, one bites the hand that feeds us. Not the hand of the nice people where this yummy dogfood ultimately comes from. -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
