On 02/25/2015 11:44 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On 02/25/2015 06:22 AM, EXT-Askew, R W wrote:
>>> I installed SL 7.0 in a system that contains a nVidia GK208 (NV108) chip
>>> set.  This installation does come up but the only display sizes are
>>> 1024x768, 800x600 and 640x480.
>>> Does anyone know where I can get an “.el7” version of 1.0.11-1 or has
>>> anyone tried the Fedora version?
>>> Bill Askew
>>>
>> I am guessing that the above Nvidia chip set is (fully) supported by the
>> proprietary Nvidia Linux driver:
> The easiest way to find the right driver version is to install
> nvidia-detect [1] from ELRepo and run it. For example:
>
> $ nvidia-detect -v
> Probing for supported NVIDIA devices...
> [10de:0fc1] NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GT 640]
> This device requires the current 346.47 NVIDIA driver kmod-nvidia
>
>> I have this working on my SL7 X86-64 workstation.  The stock driver (noveau)
>> needs to be fully disabled.
> If you use ELRepo's kmod-nvidia package [2], you do not need to do any
> of this manually. It will disable nouveau for you. Just set up ELRepo
> as Pat suggested and run 'yum install kmod-nvidia'.
>
> Akemi
>
> [1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/nvidia-detect
> [2] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
Nvidia routinely updates the proprietary Nvidia driver code.  At each 
major or minor production release of the Nvidia driver, does the above 
ELRepo RPM get updated to the current Nvidia code?  Is it maintained for 
the same Linux environments that Nvidia supports, or for a superset of 
the Nvidia supported environments?

Yasha