Re: [CentOS] dkms

2010-03-18 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Is there some way to make dkms NOT try to install/load a driver? mark, with an old NVidia card that is *NOT* supported by anything newer than 174, and *certainly* not by the generic xorg x11 nvidia driver why dkms? use

Re: [CentOS] dkms

2010-03-18 Thread m . roth
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Is there some way to make dkms NOT try to install/load a driver? mark, with an old NVidia card that is *NOT* supported by anything newer than 174, and *certainly* not by the generic xorg x11 nvidia driver why dkms? use

Re: [CentOS] dkms

2010-03-18 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:13 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: why dkms? use nvidia-x11-drv-173xx and kmod-nvidia-173xx from elrepo, the kmod is kabi-tracking. That's the one I think I'm using. Somehow, when I did my most recent update, to kernel 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5, or whenever it did an X

Re: [CentOS] dkms

2010-03-18 Thread m . roth
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:13 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: why dkms? use nvidia-x11-drv-173xx and kmod-nvidia-173xx from elrepo, the kmod is kabi-tracking. That's the one I think I'm using. Somehow, when I did my most recent update, to kernel 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5, or whenever it did an X

Re: [CentOS] dkms

2010-03-18 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:37 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: If you do not have any other dkms-dependent packages, you should remove all dkms-xxx. Mmmm... I was afraid to do that, not being sure what else it loads. However, if I rpm -qa | grep dkms, I only see dkms itself. In that case, you

Re: [CentOS] dkms

2010-03-18 Thread m . roth
Akemi wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:37 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: If you do not have any other dkms-dependent packages, you should remove all dkms-xxx. Mmmm... I was afraid to do that, not being sure what else it loads. However, if I rpm -qa | grep dkms, I only see dkms itself. In

Re: [CentOS] dkms

2010-03-18 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:56 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: ls -l `find /lib/modules -name nvidia.ko` How 'bout find /lib/modules -name nvidia.ko -ls? 30965907    0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           48 Mar 18 09:48 /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.2.1.el5/weak-updates/nvidia.ko -

Re: [CentOS] dkms

2010-03-18 Thread m . roth
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:56 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: ls -l `find /lib/modules -name nvidia.ko` How 'bout find /lib/modules -name nvidia.ko -ls? 30965907    0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           48 Mar 18 09:48 /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.2.1.el5/weak-updates/nvidia.ko - snip It's a

Re: [CentOS] dkms

2010-03-18 Thread Ned Slider
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:56 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: ls -l `find /lib/modules -name nvidia.ko` How 'bout find /lib/modules -name nvidia.ko -ls? 309659070 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Mar 18 09:48

Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers

2009-04-17 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of MHR Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 11:18 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers I've never seen this problem at all - running AMD 64x2 7750, 4Gb

Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers

2009-04-16 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of JohnS Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 5:52 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers No none of that is hardware issues. It is issues with the Nvidia

Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers

2009-04-16 Thread MHR
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: Diagonal thin black lines originating from upper left corner for starters. Then if I open a gui, whatever sort, that window gets those lines too. Menus are unreadable because of this, but slightly more readable if I

Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers

2009-04-15 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael A. Peters Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 5:57 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers Strangely enough, only the systems running an Amd cpu

Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers

2009-04-15 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Alfred von Campe Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 7:51 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers FWIW, I don't use DKMS but this homegrown script instead

Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers

2009-04-15 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 10:08 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael A. Peters Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 5:57 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia

Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers

2009-04-14 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Scott Silva Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:19 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers on 4-6-2009 5:55 AM Sorin Srbu spake the following: I got

Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers

2009-04-14 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Akemi Yagi Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:44 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers My question is who updates those drivers, as the v173.08

Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers

2009-04-14 Thread Michael A. Peters
Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Scott Silva Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:19 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers on 4-6-2009 5:55 AM Sorin Srbu spake

Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers

2009-04-14 Thread Alfred von Campe
FWIW, I don't use DKMS but this homegrown script instead. I put whatever version of the driver I want to deploy (currently NVIDIA- Linux-x86-180.44-pkg1.run) in a network accessible location and create a link named NVIDIA-Linux-x86-latest to it. The script then handles the rest. Alfred

Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers

2009-04-08 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: on 4-6-2009 5:55 AM Sorin Srbu spake the following: My question is who updates those drivers, as the v173.08 Nvidia drivers are now almost a year old? Would there be any other good repo with more current drivers suitable

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
John wrote on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:52:03 -0400: But 75% don't know how to. All they know is they downloaded the cds. Took them a week to figure out how to make a bootable install disk. Then finally 24 hours to install the OS. Six hours to get on the Internet. Another 5 hours to setup email.

RE: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-27 Thread Robert Becker Cope
Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CentOS is *not* for users new to Linux or Unix-like operatings systems. It isn't. Full stop. Hopefully what you mean is that it isn't designed specifically for users that are new to Linux. It is a perfectly fine distribution for those wanting to learn

RE: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-27 Thread John
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Becker Cope Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 8:51 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: RE: [CentOS] DKMS Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CentOS is *not* for users new to Linux or Unix-like

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-27 Thread Ned Slider
Robert Becker Cope wrote: Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CentOS is *not* for users new to Linux or Unix-like operatings systems. It isn't. Full stop. Hopefully what you mean is that it isn't designed specifically for users that are new to Linux. It is a perfectly fine distribution for

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-27 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's easy to forget there is now a whole generation of computer users who have known nothing but the GUI and completely missed out on DOS or CP/M, and never owned a Spectrum/Commodore/BBC Micro etc. Wow, Ned, I never

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-27 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's easy to forget there is now a whole generation of computer users who have known nothing but the GUI and completely missed out on DOS or CP/M, and never owned a Spectrum/Commodore/BBC Micro etc. Wow,

RE: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-27 Thread John
It was a Bounced message. John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kai Schaetzl Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 2:31 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] DKMS Kai Schaetzl wrote on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:31:14 +0200: John wrote

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 05 April 2008 22:13, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 05 April 2008 20:02:08 Alan Bartlett wrote: (3) The CentOS-docs list. Anne, the last item I received was dated April 3rd. In the morning I'll go to the member prefs page and see if I can see what's wrong. Thanks Nothing to

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-05 Thread John
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 16:49 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: John wrote: Alan, I knew of the Dell article, as I have all of those saved for reference. [1] I was just wondering if you knew of any that were for someone knew to Linux. You know the Microsoft type tutorials that have screenshot

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 05 April 2008 18:18:47 John wrote: Ned, do I hear someone volunteering to write a new Wiki section? (I don't think a *separate* Wiki for the new users, be they M$ Windoze departees or not, is a good idea.) Perhaps this discussion should be continued on the CentOS-docs list?

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-05 Thread John
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 19:17 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 05 April 2008 18:18:47 John wrote: Ned, do I hear someone volunteering to write a new Wiki section? (I don't think a *separate* Wiki for the new users, be they M$ Windoze departees or not, is a good idea.) Perhaps this

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-05 Thread John
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 20:02 +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote: On 05/04/2008, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the command line, if you saved the commands - or got them from an instructional listing in the first place, you just paste the same set of commands into a

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-05 Thread Les Mikesell
Alan Bartlett wrote: (2) We must not loose sight of what CentOS basically is. CentOS == RHEL less RH. A stable, server orientated OS. On the fora, we often see evidence that CentOS is believed to be similar to *other* distros (that are more suitable for laptops home use) and that it, CentOS,

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-05 Thread Les Mikesell
John wrote: One things GUIs can do is present a bunch of pre-set defaults or pick up the current settings so you only have to change a few particular items, and they can check the ranges and syntax of the entries before trying to apply them. Webmin does a fair job on this considering the

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-05 Thread John
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 14:54 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Alan Bartlett wrote: (2) We must not loose sight of what CentOS basically is. CentOS == RHEL less RH. A stable, server orientated OS. On the fora, we often see evidence that CentOS is believed to be similar to *other* distros (that

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-05 Thread John
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 14:54 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Alan Bartlett wrote: (2) We must not loose sight of what CentOS basically is. CentOS == RHEL less RH. A stable, server orientated OS. On the fora, we often see evidence that CentOS is believed to be similar to *other* distros (that

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-05 Thread John
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 15:12 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: John wrote: One things GUIs can do is present a bunch of pre-set defaults or pick up the current settings so you only have to change a few particular items, and they can check the ranges and syntax of the entries before trying to