[ATrpms-users] Nvidia 9746

[Phil Schaffner]

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 20:31 +1100, Phill Edwards wrote:
> Is anyone using this successfully? I have seen a couple of posts here
> from people who couldn't get it to work. One of them said that the
> nvidia module couldn't be found which is the problem I've got but
> there was no reply to to it.
> 
> I've just installed 9746 on my FC5 box and I can only run it with the
> vesa driver. If I change that to the nvidia driver X complains that it
> can't find the module and won't start.
> 
> My card is a Gigabyte nVidia 5200.

Works-for-me on CentOS4.4

# rpm -qa | grep nvidia
nvidia-graphics9746-1.0_9746-85.el4.at
nvidia-graphics9746-libs-1.0_9746-85.el4.at
nvidia-graphics9746-kmdl-2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp-1.0_9746-85.el4.at
nvidia-graphics9746-kmdl-2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp-1.0_9746-85.el4.at
nvidia-graphics9746-kmdl-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL-1.0_9746-85.el4.at
nvidia-graphics-1.0.9746-17.at
nvidia-graphics9746-kmdl-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL-1.0_9746-85.el4.at
nvidia-graphics-helpers-0.0.18-19.el4.at
nvidia-graphics-devices-1.0-5.el4.at
# lspci | grep -i nvidia
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV36.2 [GeForce FX 5700] (rev a1)
# grep -i nv /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(**) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia,/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions,/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
(--) PCI:*(5:0:0) nVidia Corporation GeForce FX 5700 rev 161, Mem @ 0xfd000000/24, 0xd0000000/28, BIOS @ 0xfeae0000/17
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
(II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  1.0-9746  Fri Dec 15 09:56:41 PST 2006
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
...

Regards,
Phil