Troy,

I have always used the proprietary NVIDIA drivers on x86_64, because
the distro drivers didn't work for me.  Maybe this will help.

On  3.03.08, Troy Dawson wrote:
> Evidently people don't use the nvidia drivers much on x86_64.  We were 
> missing nvidia-glx and nvidia-glx-devel.
> They are there now and you should be able to do the install.
> 
>   yum --enablerepo=sl-contrib clean all
>   yum --enablerepo=sl-contrib install kernel-module-nvidia-`uname -r`
> 
> Troy
> 
> Troy Dawson wrote:
> >Looks like something got missed ... just a minute
> >Troy
> >
> >
> >Robert E. Blair wrote:
> >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >>Hash: SHA1
> >>
> >>I am trying to kick the nvidia custom binaries direct from nvidia on an
> >>x86-64 SL4.5 system.  When I try to yum install kernel-module-nvidia I 
> >>get:
> >>
> >> yum --enablerepo=sl-contrib install kernel-module-nvidia
> >>Loading "kernel-module" plugin
> >>Setting up Install Process
> >>Setting up repositories
> >>Reading repository metadata in from local files
> >>Parsing package install arguments
> >>Resolving Dependencies
> >>- --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> >>- ---> Package kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.9-67.EL.x86_64 0:1.0.7676-0.SL.2
> >>set to be updated
> >>- --> Running transaction check
> >>- --> Processing Dependency: nvidia-glx = 0:1.0.7676 for package:
> >>kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.9-67.EL
> >>- --> Processing Dependency: /usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display for package:
> >>kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.9-67.EL
> >>- --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> >>Error: Missing Dependency: nvidia-glx = 0:1.0.7676 is needed by package
> >>kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.9-67.EL
> >>Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display is needed by
> >>package kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.9-67.EL
> >>
> >>This does not depend on enabling the sl-contrib repo (i.e. same result
> >>without the --enablerepo...).  How does one resolve these dependencies?
> >> Dag has one but not the other.  CERN has one but not the other.  No
> >>combination appears to work.  Should the rest of the nvidia stuff be
> >>somewhere in SL4.5?  Is there a proprietary piece I need to get?
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance for any help,
> >>Bob Blair
> >
> >
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