Best place to get nVidia video driver update CentOS 5.5

DemiSheep · 01-27-2011, 01:18 PM

What is the best place to get an updated nVidia video driver for CentOS 5.5? Is there a CentOS package available that will update it? Or is it best to download it directly from nVidia?

Also, I do not have an internet connection on the machine, so it will have to be a manual download and installation.

Thanks,
DemiSheep

ADxD_7 · 01-27-2011, 04:51 PM

I would suggest straight from Nvidia - just figure out what card your machine uses and use the menu to download it - it will be a stand-alone install so no worries just put it on a flash drive

John VV · 01-27-2011, 05:43 PM

the easiest way is yum

Code:

yum update

the kmod is in the repos
RPMForge
and
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia

see the wiki
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories

lazlow · 01-27-2011, 07:33 PM

Elrepo has been keeping fairly uptodate on the drivers (26.19.36 currently).

Rpmforge sutff works better for the older cards (geForce2 etc).

John VV · 01-27-2011, 07:59 PM

use the EL repo
or for EVERY kernel,x11,xorg,mesa update you need to REINSTALL the nvidia.run AND the mesa.rpm,and mesa-devel.rmp
the .run overwrites some mesa system files including a system header file GL.h

DemiSheep · 01-31-2011, 01:46 PM

I just used nVidia's installation directly following their instructions.

As a side note, as I stated, I don't have the internet connected to the machine so yum wouldn't work

DemiSheep

lazlow · 02-01-2011, 09:31 AM

yum works without the internet. You just use yum localinstall(see man yum). You would grab(the same way you grabbed the nvidia master drivers) the approprite rpms from the sources listed and install them. Be aware that the Nvidia source will replace some system fiels with version that are not compatible with everything else. Thisis why most people use the prebuilt versions(they do not do this).