[lug] NVIDIA accelerated graphics

[Jim Cromie]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Steve A Hart <shart at colorado.edu> wrote:
> Thanks for all the opinions on this!  I really think the updates from
> RedHat are overwriting parts of the manual NVIDIA installation.
> Reloading the NVIDIA driver is easy enough but with 55 systems randomly
> dropping graphics, it's kind of a pain.

If its truly random, Id think its not an update issue.
Id expect to see all machines needing the same adjustment
at approx the same time (how often do you configure check-for-updates ?)
Id think you'd also find evidence in
[root at groucho log]# tail yum.log


 I'll look into the 3rd party
> repos but those are usually way behind the current version and I like
> having the latest one running.  I guess I'll just have to suck it up and
> deal.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Steve
>
> On 10/18/2010 02:58 PM, Davide Del Vento wrote:
>>> What I'm seeing is that various systems suddenly have the accelerated
>>> graphics turned off.
>> (snip)
>>> I basically have to go into single user and re-run the NVIDIA installer
>>> to get the accelerated graphics back.
>>
>> I'm not familiar with the NVIDIA drivers (anymore). Did it get just
>> turned-off or completely uninstalled? Can you configure it only from
>> the NVIDIA executable and not from anywhere else in the X/GNOME/KDE
>> settings?
>>
>> My 0.01$ (worth half than the usual) is to check if the machines are
>> getting any network "update" that is breaking your settings (either
>> from RH or from NVIDIA): for some weird reasons it might not be
>> happening on all the machines at the same time.
>>
>> Best,
>> Davide
>
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> Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
> University of Colorado Boulder
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