Which nivida drivers?

[Doll, Margaret Ann]

What are the advantages of using a NVIDIA graphics card for research
purposes?  We do look at a lot of lunar and planet maps.

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Corey Kovacs <corey.kovacs at gmail.com>wrote:

> No worries. Glad to help.
>
> C
> On Jul 17, 2012 7:31 AM, "Doll, Margaret Ann" <margaret_doll at brown.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Corey.
> >
> > That gives me the information.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Corey Kovacs <corey.kovacs at gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Margaret, generally speaking, dmidecode is a very useful tool. It's
> > really
> > > useful when you want to do things like get the gospel truth on how much
> > ram
> > > is in a machine, number of CPU's, pci slots, serial numbers etc. It
> reads
> > > it's information from a dump if the DMI. For your case, it might have
> > been
> > > much simpler to just use *lspci* ?  Was there any reason that wasn't
> > giving
> > > you what you needed? I ask because it has always given me what I needed
> > > when dealing with NVidia drivers.
> > >
> > > Now, if you ever want to find out what version your card/kernel is
> > actually
> > > using at a point in time, simply cat out...
> > >
> > > /proc/driver/nvidia/version
> > >
> > > I can't remember of that's exactlt right but poke around in the
> > > /proc/driver/ directory and you'll find it. Another way is to pass *-k*
> > to
> > > lspci. it will tell you what driver is being used for all devices. At
> > that
> > > point, you could do *modinfo <drivername>*.  For example on my home
> > > system....
> > >
> > > lspci -k
> > >
> > > ...
> > > 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600
> > GS]
> > > (rev a1)
> > >         Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 0413
> > >         Kernel driver in use: nouveau
> > >
> > > This is what gets reported with respect to the video card.
> > >
> > > Anyway, just some tools and techniques to get you though.
> > >
> > > Take care
> > >
> > >
> > > Corey
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Doll, Margaret Ann <
> > > margaret_doll at brown.edu
> > > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thanks for the tip on lshw.  I installed the package.  I had to run
> it
> > as
> > > >
> > > > lshw > ~/hardware.
> > > >
> > > > The hardware file then had all the information I needed.  I will look
> > at
> > > > your other suggestions because keeping up with the nvidia drivers on
> a
> > > > linux system is a pain.
> > > >
> > > > dmidecode only seemed to give information on devices that were a
> > integral
> > > > part of the cpu system and not to devices attached to the system such
> > as
> > > > monitors.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:29 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi, Margaret,
> > > > >
> > > > > Doll, Margaret Ann wrote:
> > > > > > I have two systems that need Nivdia drivers, but I don't know
> which
> > > > ones.
> > > > > >
> > > > > <snip>
> > > > > Use lshw or dmidecode, through more, and find out what it says it
> is.
> > > > Then
> > > > > go to NVidia's website, and see which driver it wants for
> > > > > Linux.<http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us>
> > > > >
> > > > > Alternatively, add elrepo to your repositories, and install
> > > kmod-nvidia -
> > > > > much easier, and it'll autorebuild every time you update to a new
> > > kernel
> > > > &
> > > > > reboot. I'm slowly moving folks here to that.
> > > > >
> > > > > Note you *can* explicitly make that the only thing you get from
> > elrepo
> > > -
> > > > > you do it in your elrepo.repo config file.
> > > > >
> > > > >        mark
> > > > >
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