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Re: Issues with Nvidia driver centos 5.3 | #41 |
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As I indicated in my first EDIT (admitted, slightly obfuscated, and your request may have crossed my edit), that's what I did, and it worked. The protect=0 in the elrepo.repo file was the culprit excluding it from the list. |
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Posted on: 2009/11/3 16:29
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Re: Issues with Nvidia driver centos 5.3 | #42 |
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Indeed, I did not see your EDIT when I posted.
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Posted on: 2009/11/3 16:39
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Re: Issues with Nvidia driver centos 5.3 | #43 |
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Hi, Yes, your right When I put the package together, I was unsure whether the 32-bit libs were needed or not in the 64-bit package. I based my decision to include them on the basis that the default RHEL/CentOS installations include 32-bit gui components in the install. I'm sure we can figure something out - suggestions how to handle this welcome One option might be to split the 32-bit libs into a separate package, or we could test for the presence of 32-bit packages and not install 32-bit libs on 64-bit only systems (messy). |
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Posted on: 2009/11/3 18:39
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Re: Issues with Nvidia driver centos 5.3 | #44 |
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NedSlider wrote: Which would be quite intuitive and leave installation decision to the user. @toracat: We have three usual scenarions, don't we? 1. New install of kmod-nvidia. Requiring reboot does not sound bad. 2. Update of kernel. The need to reboot is implicit. 3. Update of kmod-nvidia. Does "rmmod foo ; modprobe foo" delete the devices of previous module? |
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Posted on: 2009/11/4 7:56
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Re: Issues with Nvidia driver centos 5.3 | #45 |
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Regarding the 'new install of kmod-nvidia' case, you probably mean the system had the nvidia driver installed from other sources (dkms, installer, etc) when kmod-nvidia was installed for the first time. In this case, reboot is the best course of action, I suppose. Regarding updating kmod-nvidia, exiting X and then executing the modprobe command to reload the nvidia module worked in my limited experience. |
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Posted on: 2009/11/4 9:11
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Re: Issues with Nvidia driver centos 5.3 | #46 |
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toracat wrote: Or a system so fresh that it has never seen a "driver" before. I did stumble on another pebble, probably of my own doing: I had Nvidia's package before, and had compiled Qt 4.6 preview myself. After swapping driver, linking an application barks at '-lGL'. IIRC, Nvidia's package did have a habit of replacing Mesa libs in "the usual places", while our lovely rpm stays in /usr/lib64/nvidia and /usr/lib/nvidia. Nothing wrong with that, and reconfiguring that Qt source package should provide decent build environment. (Messing with "not neatly packaged" sources is not "stable CentOS" problem anyway.) However, I do recollect the Nvidia's package to contain header files for the curious, though Mesa versions were used by default. The question is probably: Should those be in the package as "documentation"? |
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Posted on: 2009/11/5 11:06
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