A few years ago, I used the nvidia proprietary driver in Oracle Linux 5.8 (64-bit) with no problems.
I need the driver again for some software package that requires either RHEL4 or 5 with nvidia driver.
I tried to install in Centos 5.11 (32-bit) running PAE kernel. However it fails to start X.
Error message includes "FATAL Module nvidia not found"
So we must revert to old xorg.conf with nv driver.
I have another PC with 32-bit Centos 5.11 but with SMP kernel. I can install the nvidia driver on that okay.
Both have old graphics cards that are supported by the version of nvidia driver, which I downloaded from nvidia.
nvidia driver with PAE kernel - no go
Re: nvidia driver with PAE kernel - no go
Probably means the module has not been loaded. Can you manually modprobe it?"FATAL Module nvidia not found"
Re: nvidia driver with PAE kernel - no go
I remember that nvida was unsupported on a PAE kernel back in 2009 when a colleague of mine tried it but that there were ways of making it work if you tried hard enough. However I'm not sure how successful that was.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke
Re: nvidia driver with PAE kernel - no go
I found a kludge in Fedora forum. Procedure includes installing kernel-PAE-devel before nvidia driver and a warning steps must be done exactly as described.TrevorH wrote:I remember that nvida was unsupported on a PAE kernel back in 2009 when a colleague of mine tried it but that there were ways of making it work if you tried hard enough. However I'm not sure how successful that was.
Re: nvidia driver with PAE kernel - no go
Have you tried the nvidia drivers from elrepo?
There is a kmod-nvidia-PAE package for PAE kernels.
First you must uninstall any previous NVIDIA driver software installs, then:
yum install kmod-nvidia-PAE
and reboot.
Hope that helps.
There is a kmod-nvidia-PAE package for PAE kernels.
First you must uninstall any previous NVIDIA driver software installs, then:
yum install kmod-nvidia-PAE
and reboot.
Hope that helps.
Re: nvidia driver with PAE kernel - no go
Oh, and there are also older legacy PAE driver packages too:
kmod-nvidia-173xx-PAE
kmod-nvidia-304xx-PAE
kmod-nvidia-340xx-PAE
depending how old your device is.
nvidia-detect (also from elrepo) will identify the correct driver for your hardware.
Hope that helps
kmod-nvidia-173xx-PAE
kmod-nvidia-304xx-PAE
kmod-nvidia-340xx-PAE
depending how old your device is.
nvidia-detect (also from elrepo) will identify the correct driver for your hardware.
Hope that helps