[lug] NVIDIA accelerated graphics

[Steve A Hart]

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.  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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Steve Hart
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University of Colorado Boulder
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