On 01/25/2013 02:28 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:19:14PM -0800, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>> 3) nvidia and elrepo make a mess of the information on which cards are supported by which drivers.
>>
> To elaborate:
>
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
>
> The grand total of information on supported video cards is this:
>
> Supported Chipsets
> This driver is the current release and supports the most recent NVIDIA graphics cards (GeForce 8 series GPUs onwards, as well as Quadro series). Users of cards based on older chipsets should use one of the following legacy drivers.
>
> This is not helpful information. GeForce210 cards I bought in December are "recent" or not? Are
> they "8 series and onward" or not? They are not listed in the legacy lists, is it an omission
> or have I dodged a bullet today or not?
>

Nvidia has a helpful compatibility page (google result #2 for nvidia 
linux drivers):

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Please don't hold the ELRepo folks accountable for changes NVidia makes.

They are graciously donating their time to make these packages.

Pat

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Pat Riehecky
Scientific Linux Developer