On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Misc Things <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello,
> Finally got to installing the sl6.its wonderful to see its booting
> much faster then previous version (centos5.6).
>
> Here is the situation and a question :
> I have an Nvidia video card. by default it uses the nouveau driver.
> Unfortunately, I was not able to run compiz. I followed the
> instructions on their site ans installed the closed source (nvidia)
> driver. I also blacklisted and disables nouveau driver. That made
> compiz "happy". But now the pretty graphical load is gone.
> The question is - how can I get it back :)?

First, revert everything you have done. :)  Especially make sure you
do not have anything from Nvidia. Then install kmod-nvidia from ELRepo
as detailed here:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia

It will take care of blacklisting nouveau if that has already been installed.

Also there is a howto in the SL forums:

http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showtopic=15

Akemi