On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Yasha Karant <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/25/2015 06:22 AM, EXT-Askew, R W wrote:
>> I installed SL 7.0 in a system that contains a nVidia GK208 (NV108) chip >> set. This installation does come up but the only display sizes are >> 1024x768, 800x600 and 640x480. >> Does anyone know where I can get an “.el7” version of 1.0.11-1 or has >> anyone tried the Fedora version? >> Bill Askew >> > I am guessing that the above Nvidia chip set is (fully) supported by the > proprietary Nvidia Linux driver: The easiest way to find the right driver version is to install nvidia-detect [1] from ELRepo and run it. For example: $ nvidia-detect -v Probing for supported NVIDIA devices... [10de:0fc1] NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GT 640] This device requires the current 346.47 NVIDIA driver kmod-nvidia > I have this working on my SL7 X86-64 workstation. The stock driver (noveau) > needs to be fully disabled. If you use ELRepo's kmod-nvidia package [2], you do not need to do any of this manually. It will disable nouveau for you. Just set up ELRepo as Pat suggested and run 'yum install kmod-nvidia'. Akemi [1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/nvidia-detect [2] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
