Bakur Parsamyan wrote:
Hi,
I've installed S.L. 5.2 on my Dell Latitude D830 and there are some
problems with
driver of my video card (NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M).
Video card seems to be properly identified but there's no 3D
acceleration.. Could you please help me with this? Thank you very much
in advance!
Best regards,
Bakur.
The main problem is that there isn't a very good open source video driver for
nvidia. Usually what you get is the VESA driver, which is the generic video
driver.
So, how do you get good 3D graphics and other options on your nvidia card?
Well, you can always download, compile and install the appropriate driver from
nvidia
http://www.nvidia.com/
That's not too bad of an option. It's fairly easy to install
But, in SL 5 we have a program called dkms, and several of the nvidia kernel
drivers packages in a way to utilize dkms. (Dynameic Kernel Module Support)
So first, you install dkms
yum install dkms
Then install your video driver. Which driver you install depends on how new
your card is. There is a list on the nvidia site if you need to figure it out.
If it's really new, then just do a
yum --enablerepo=sl-contrib install nvidia-x11-drv
If it's just a couple of years old, then you'll want to do
rpm -Uvh
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/52/i386/contrib/video/nvidia-x11-drv-169.07-1.0.i386.rpm
If it's older than 3 years old then you'll want to do
rpm -Uvh
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/52/i386/contrib/video/nvidia-x11-drv-96.43.01-1.1.i386.rpm
The biggest advantace using dkms and the packages with it, is that you don't
have to worry about recompiling your nvidia driver each time you update your
kernel. dkms *should* compile it for you each time you boot into a new kernel,
as opposed to getting the package straight from nvidia. If you get it straight
from nvidia, then when you update and boot into a new kernel, your X windows
will break and won't start until you recompiled the nvidia driver. It's just a
one line command, but it's still a pain.
I hope this didn't confuse you more than help. I just saw that notbody else
had replied.
Troy
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