Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-19 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 09:28 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:16 AM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 11:12 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: We (ELRepo) haven't packaged older nvidia drivers (yet) but we can certainly look into that if there is a demand.

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/17/2009 03:16 PM, JohnS wrote: We (ELRepo) haven't packaged older nvidia drivers (yet) but we can certainly look into that if there is a demand. --- Maybe consider doing it? I myself use a lot of older hardware with the legacy cards in them. Umm, what's involvled doing it?

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-19 Thread JohnS
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 18:13 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 09/17/2009 03:16 PM, JohnS wrote: We (ELRepo) haven't packaged older nvidia drivers (yet) but we can certainly look into that if there is a demand. --- Maybe consider doing it? I myself use a lot of older hardware with the

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-17 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 11:12 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: JohnS wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 15:11 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:51:23PM +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Akemi Yagi wrote: The only reason for me to keep maintaining the dkms packages,

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-17 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:16 AM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 11:12 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: We (ELRepo) haven't packaged older nvidia drivers (yet) but we can certainly look into that if there is a demand. --- Maybe consider doing it? I myself use a lot of older

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-16 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 15:11 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:51:23PM +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Akemi Yagi wrote: The only reason for me to keep maintaining the dkms packages, would be for those people not running supported kernels

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-16 Thread Ned Slider
JohnS wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 15:11 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:51:23PM +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Akemi Yagi wrote: The only reason for me to keep maintaining the dkms packages, would be for those people not running supported kernels

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-16 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ned Slider wrote on 09/16/2009 06:12 AM: ... That tends to change as the drivers move forward over time, older cards become legacy and are no longer supported by the latest driver. For a list of cards supported by the latest driver, the user is better off referring to nvidia's

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-16 Thread lostson
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 07:50 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: Ned Slider wrote on 09/16/2009 06:12 AM: ... That tends to change as the drivers move forward over time, older cards become legacy and are no longer supported by the latest driver. For a list of cards supported by the latest

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-16 Thread Phil Schaffner
lostson wrote on 09/16/2009 08:23 AM: On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 07:50 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: ... In the doc we have been toying with the finding the correct driver is in there. Yes, I see it in the draft - just suggesting ideas to beef it up. Phil P.S. [soapbox]Trimming quotes to the

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-16 Thread Scott Robbins
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:39:23AM -0400, JohnS wrote: Could those that are trying out the kmod driver please report what video card model you have. Would be nice to have a good list of the Legacy and Newer Cards. For what it is worth, I'll take the lazy man's way out and just send it here.

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ned Slider wrote on 09/14/2009 01:23 PM: ... Do we need to decide what the official (or preferred) CentOS Way is for this? Or do we just present all the options without prejudice? There are (to my knowledge) the Nvidia binary installer, dkms driver from rpmforge, kmdl package from ATrpms,

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-15 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov wrote: Ned Slider wrote on 09/14/2009 01:23 PM: There are (to my knowledge) the Nvidia binary installer, dkms driver from rpmforge, kmdl package from ATrpms, and a kmod driver from elrepo. I'd say present all the

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-15 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:51:23PM +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Akemi Yagi wrote: The only reason for me to keep maintaining the dkms packages, would be for those people not running supported kernels (recent/official). But if we could describe and automate the building of

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-14 Thread Phil Schaffner
lostson wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 23:39 -0400, JohnS wrote: ... [1] http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList/Nvidia_Graphics JohnStanley I was reading yours over today and yes they are very similar, hopefully i can get edit permissions soon and we can get it all squared away. Might want to

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-14 Thread Scott Robbins
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 01:09:43PM -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: lostson wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 23:39 -0400, JohnS wrote: ... [1] http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList/Nvidia_Graphics JohnStanley I was reading yours over today and yes they are very similar, hopefully i can

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-14 Thread Ned Slider
Phil Schaffner wrote: lostson wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 23:39 -0400, JohnS wrote: ... [1] http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList/Nvidia_Graphics JohnStanley I was reading yours over today and yes they are very similar, hopefully i can get edit permissions soon and we can get it all

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-14 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Scott Robbins scot...@nyc.rr.com wrote: Over the weekend, I played with the elrepo-testing version.  It was pretty much (after having installed the nvidia drivers from NVidia) nvidia-uninstall to get rid of what I'd downloaded. Then yum --disablerepo=*

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-14 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Am 14.09.09 19:23, schrieb Ned Slider: Do we need to decide what the official (or preferred) CentOS Way is for this? Or do we just present all the options without prejudice? There are (to my knowledge) the Nvidia binary installer, dkms driver from rpmforge, kmdl package from ATrpms, and a

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-09 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 19:30 -0500, lostson wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 22:32 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: That was one mail which got lost in the great mail transition on my side. I think I need your Wiki login name to make that happen. ShaunJones is my login name Go ahead, then.

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-01 Thread lostson
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 23:39 -0400, JohnS wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 15:31 -0500, lostson wrote: Hello Attached is my idea for a nvidia wiki page hopefully this is informative and good enough for the wiki, ideas and critique welcome of course, thanks. --- Hey there Lostson you have

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-09-01 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Am 01.09.09 16:12, schrieb lostson: I was reading yours over today and yes they are very similar, hopefully i can get edit permissions soon and we can get it all squared away. Ooops, sorry. That was one mail which got lost in the great mail transition on my side. I think I need your Wiki

[CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

2009-08-18 Thread lostson
Hello Attached is my idea for a nvidia wiki page hopefully this is informative and good enough for the wiki, ideas and critique welcome of course, thanks. -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org CentOS - It's not just for servers ya know... ## my proposed nvidia guide wiki page ## If you have