[CentOS] CentOS 5 and the nvidia driver

Does it help you if I say that I have no troubles whatsoever with the
proprietary nvidia driver and a 6800 card (or 6600, cannot check at
moment)?

Ralph

Yes, thanks.

mhr

I have a GeForce 7300 GT, nvidia driver 9755 and CentOS 5.0 x86, and is
going fine.

It just occurred to me that I was looking for feedback on x86_64
systems, but keep 'em coming!

:-)

I'm hoping to have some feedback for this in the next day or two. Just
built up a new system, Intel 945 MB, BFG 6800 PCIe16 graphics on Centos 5.

This will be one of the very few drivers I've built and I did attempt it
yesterday but it complained about not having kernel.h available. I did
install a matching kernel-devel rpm with yum but it didn't like that for
some reason.

Any idea what I did wrong or what I didn't do?

we're very happy with our HP DL585 servers, running several of them in
RHEL x86_64 with no problems. I dunno if this is the sort of server
you had in mind, its a 4 socket Opteron 800 series, the ones in my lab
are 8GB ram, 4 x 2.4Ghz, with fiberchannel external storage, and are
used for Oracle database and vmware.

Looking specifically for CentOS 5.0 x86_64 installations with nvidia
video cards, GeForce 7100sg especially....

I've just installed Centos 5 on my x86_64 desktop with an nvidia Quadro NVS
280 PCI card and it works perfectly out of the box, without having to
recompile the nvidia driver. I'm using the stock nv driver that came with
Centos 5. For CentOS 4, I had to recompile the driver. Not anymore. I'll
update whether I see any problems down the road but seems ok so far.

If I check video card information in Display Settings, it says nv model is
for GeForce, nForce, and QUADRO cards. nv never used to work for me for
CentOS 4 so don't take this to mean it'll necessarily work with your GeForce
card.

Michael