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| Guillaume Dargaud... |
 Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:08 am |
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Hello all,
OK, I need some help getting the nVidia driver on RedHat Enterprise 5.1.
Now, on Ubuntu, all I have to do is the following:
- enable non-free repository
- # yum install nvidia
- # nvidia-settings
Click on a few things and voila!
On RedHat, I've tried to following (recollection of several hours of pain
yesterday):
- figure out which of the tons of online tutorial is not obsolete (none of
them work)
- download NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.14-pkg1.run (why is there NO
instructions ?)
- exit the X server (a whole experience in itself)
- run it only to be told the driver can't be downloaded or compiled:
$ uname -a
Linux lpsc6187x.in2p3.fr 2.6.18-128.1.14.el5PAE #1 SMP Tue Jun 16 19:13:25
EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# yum install kernel-devel
$ ls /usr/src/kernels
2.6.18-128.1.14.el5-i686
- try to force it to use this anyway, without success (fails to load module
nvidia)
- download nvidia-xconfig-1.0.tar.gz
- untar, make, make install
- download kernel-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.src.rpm
- try to understand what to do with it after "rpm -ivh" and seeing tons of
patches in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/
My questions:
- why isn't it simpler ? (like "yum install nvidia")
- where is nvidia-settings ?
- how do I get it to finally work ?
Thanks. |
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| Guillaume Dargaud... |
| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:34 am |
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Trying other things, based on
http://www.linlap.com/wiki/configuring+a+nvidia+graphics+chip+for+centos+and+rhel+5
- el$releasever needs (?) to be replaced with el5
# yum install nvidia-graphics
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Finished Kernel Module Plugin
Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.16.el5 is needed by
package nvidia-graphics185.18.14-kmdl-2.6.18-128.1.16.el5
$ ls /boot/vm*
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5PAE
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5PAE
Now what ? |
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