Re: nvidia mess, Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-25 Thread jdow
It looks like Nux has it under control if people listen. I figure there should be some people around ElRepo at least as smart and clever as a roughly 70 year old woman who's too dumb to retire and keeps pushing her work, which is not system administration. And I figure at my age I've earned the r

Re: nvidia mess, Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-25 Thread jdow
On 2013/01/25 15:04, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:48 PM, jdow wrote: It seems there should have been some way to cozen yum into sending the administrator email regarding the process that needs to be taken. I ask once again that all elrepo-related talks be taken to the elrepo

Re: nvidia mess, Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-25 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:48 PM, jdow wrote: > It seems there should have been some way to cozen yum into sending the > administrator email regarding the process that needs to be taken. I ask once again that all elrepo-related talks be taken to the elrepo mailing list. The SL list is the place

Re: nvidia mess, Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-25 Thread jdow
On 2013/01/25 13:31, Lamar Owen wrote: On Jan 25, 2013, at 3:57 PM, jdow wrote: To a degree I can sympathize with the elrepo people. Nvidia has screwed up. This is not the first time nvidia cards have gone 'legacy'. There are now three supported legacy nvidia driver versions (304.xx, 173.xx,

Re: nvidia mess, Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-25 Thread Lamar Owen
On Jan 25, 2013, at 3:57 PM, jdow wrote: > To a degree I can sympathize with the elrepo people. Nvidia has screwed up. This is not the first time nvidia cards have gone 'legacy'. There are now three supported legacy nvidia driver versions (304.xx, 173.xx, and 96.xx). Prior to 310.xx, there wer

Re: nvidia mess, Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-25 Thread jdow
On 2013/01/25 13:04, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:57 PM, jdow wrote: the gentlemen at elrepo . They seem to be basically very good folks. s/basically// ;-) By the way there is more than "gentlemen" on the ELRepo team... but that's not important. Akemi I had a str

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] nvidia mess, Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-25 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
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 n

Re: nvidia mess, Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-25 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:57 PM, jdow wrote: > the gentlemen at elrepo . > They seem to be basically very good folks. s/basically// ;-) By the way there is more than "gentlemen" on the ELRepo team... but that's not important. Akemi

Re: nvidia mess, Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-25 Thread jdow
On 2013/01/25 12:28, 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 inf

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] nvidia mess, Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-25 Thread Pat Riehecky
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 in

Re: nvidia mess, Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-25 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
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: Su

nvidia mess, Re: Is there a kernel update for SL 6.2 coming up soon?

2013-01-25 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 06:32:10PM +, Alan Bartlett wrote: > > "It seems jdow has screwed up." > I am not buying this. I shall bite the hand that feeds me and elaborate. Look at it from my side. As a small part of my job, I manage 20-30 machines with random ATI and NVIDIA video cards. I

Re: Nvidia stereoscopic 3D system on SL 6x

2013-01-25 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 25 January 2013 18:18, Yasha Karant wrote: > > Thank you for the correction. > > Am I correct to assume that this driver -- presumably derived from the > proprietary Nvidia driver that must be uninstalled per the documentation in > the URL that you provided -- has fully stereoscopic 3D support,

Re: How to get IA-32 compatibility with X86-64

2013-01-25 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:46:40AM -0500, Bluejay Adametz wrote: > > How does one activate both to appear so that the library packages for both > > will be put into the system via the GUI? > > You should be able to explicitly install 32-bit versions of libraries > with something like > yum

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Nvidia stereoscopic 3D system on SL 6x

2013-01-25 Thread Pat Riehecky
On 01/25/2013 12:18 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: On 01/25/2013 10:08 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Jan 25, 2013, at 12:43 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: My understanding is that none of the distribution or other RPM repositories include a RPM binary port of the Nvidia proprietary ("taints the kernel") X11 vid

Re: Nvidia stereoscopic 3D system on SL 6x

2013-01-25 Thread Yasha Karant
On 01/25/2013 10:08 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Jan 25, 2013, at 12:43 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: My understanding is that none of the distribution or other RPM repositories include a RPM binary port of the Nvidia proprietary ("taints the kernel") X11 video driver. ELrepo does indeed package the n

Re: Nvidia stereoscopic 3D system on SL 6x

2013-01-25 Thread Lamar Owen
On Jan 25, 2013, at 12:43 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > > My understanding is that none of the distribution or other RPM repositories > include a RPM binary port of the Nvidia proprietary ("taints the kernel") X11 > video driver. ELrepo does indeed package the nvidia binary 'taints the kernel' d

Re: Nvidia stereoscopic 3D system on SL 6x

2013-01-25 Thread Yasha Karant
On 01/25/2013 05:28 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: After a bit of work, on-line research (not entirely from the Nvidia site nor Nvidia documentation), I have modified the Nvidia application created xorg.conf file to one that actually works: a

Re: Nvidia stereoscopic 3D system on SL 6x

2013-01-25 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > After a bit of work, on-line research (not entirely from the Nvidia site nor > Nvidia documentation), I have modified the Nvidia application created > xorg.conf file to one that actually works: a stereo 3D application such as > UCSF Chimera