nVidia Video Cards

The ELRepo packages are:

• kmod-nvidia current nVidia kABI-tracking driver

• kmod-nvidia-96xx legacy driver for GeForce 2 to GeForce 4 series GPUs

• kmod-nvidia-173xx legacy driver for GeForce 5 series GPUs

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1. Hardware

Latest cards list go to http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_18897.html.

Legacy card list go to http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html.

2. Problem

Nvidia 3D Acceleration

3. In-Depth explanation

None

4. Output of `lspci -v`

Example output (I only have a GeForce3 card, which is well supported):

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV20 [GeForce3] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. AGP-V8200 DDR
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 11
        Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Memory at ddc80000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
        Expansion ROM at dfef0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0

5. Solution

Go to Nvidia Unix Drivers Homepage for Linux.

Select your Architecture and your graphics card. Non-legacy or Legacy

Download the "Nvidia Installer".

Login as root or use sudo for the following.

Edit /etc/inittab.

Find the line that reads

id:5:initdefault:

or

id:3:initdefault:

If you have the first version, change the "5" to a "3" before rebooting.

After that you should reboot your system.

Login as root or use sudo for the following.

yum install kernel-devel gcc

Change to the directory where you downloaded the Nvidia installer and make it executable with chmod +x filename

Run the installer.

After it has completed, you can verify this with running startx. If X doesn't start, please look at the output it spews at you.

If X does run, you can change the line in /etc/inittab to

id:5:initdefault:

Then X will be started automatically at bootup.

6. Workaround

Is there a workaround for that hardware, like using CentOS 3 instead of CentOS 4?

7. Notes

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