I'm very sorry for the confusion. I meant to tell you to go to www.nvidia.com and then choose download drivers from the menu on their website.
Sorry I rushed the message on my phone. I hope this helps. D. "Because Android is Awesome" On Mar 13, 2012 8:17 AM, "Ben Donohue" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Dion, > > ok now where is "download drivers"? I've searched everywhere... looks like > a Gnome desktop so perhaps I don't have the "download drivers" package > installed? I've gone through all the menu's. > > Is there a command line instruction or a yum package for this? > > Anyway still working on it. > Thanks. > Ben > > > On 12/03/2012 9:53 PM, Dion wrote: > >> On 12/03/12 6:42 PM, Ben Donohue wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> got a new computer with a Inno3D GF GTX 570 VaporFreeze... >>> >> I'm envious. >> >>> >>> It comes with windows drivers but I am currently loading CentOS on the >>> box... or any Linux distro that could work with it. >>> >>> (I also want it to be able to do virtualisation of other OS's... so it >>> has 32GB RAM which is nice.) >>> >>> Just having trouble finding drivers or how to go about getting this card >>> recognised. >>> >> If Centos doesn't offer packaged nvidia drivers, go to download drivers. >> Choose something like Geforce 9 series, Linux 32 bit (or 64 bit if that is >> what your distro is) and click download. >> >> After its down you might have to change its properties and then execute >> the binary. After that it should be all self explanatory. >> >> Note: its way better to use drivers that are managed by the OS. So a >> Centos package that bundles the Nvidia driver is likely to upgrade better >> in the future. Well thats how it seems on my distro. >> >>> It seems to only do generic card and 1024x768 whereas it should do >>> 1920x1080 >>> >>> Anyway any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ben >>> >>> >> >> -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: > http://slug.org.au/faq/**mailinglists.html<http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html> > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
