Which nivida drivers?

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Doll, Margaret Ann 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.
>
Yeah, lshw is quite nice, and IMO formats the info more cleanly.

      mark
>
> 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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