I've moved a Centos6 system to newer hardware with NVIDIA
GTX560M graphics. The Centos6 nouveau driver version 1.0.10
can't handle it. From the man page it seems version 1.0.11
can. How can I upgrade that package (without upgrading the
whole system)? (I know about the NVIDIA drivers but I'd
prefer the nouveau driver so I won't have to rebuild the
module whenever the kernel is upgraded.)
I've moved a Centos6 system to newer hardware with
NVIDIA GTX560M graphics. The Centos6 nouveau driver
version 1.0.10 can't handle it. From the man page it
seems version 1.0.11 can. How can I upgrade that package
(without upgrading the whole system)? (I know about the
NVIDIA drivers but I'd prefer the nouveau driver so I
won't have to rebuild the module whenever the kernel is
upgraded.)
A newer kernel should do it, because nouveau is part of
the upstream kernel sources. Also make sure you have the
latest linux-firmware package installed.
On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:24:37 +0200, Aragorn wrote:
I've moved a Centos6 system to newer hardware with
NVIDIA GTX560M graphics. The Centos6 nouveau driver
version 1.0.10 can't handle it. From the man page it
seems version 1.0.11 can. How can I upgrade that package
(without upgrading the whole system)? (I know about the
NVIDIA drivers but I'd prefer the nouveau driver so I
won't have to rebuild the module whenever the kernel is
upgraded.)
A newer kernel should do it, because nouveau is part of
the upstream kernel sources. Also make sure you have the
latest linux-firmware package installed.
Thanks, but it doesn't seem to work. I've tried both
kernel-lt-3.10.101 and kernel-ml-4.5.0 from ELRepo (with
the corresponding kernel-headers and kernel-firmware) but I
can't get anything better than 1024x768. Do I need the newer
kernel packages *and* a newer xorg-x11-drv-nouveau?
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2016 02:04, Bob Tennent conveyed the following to comp.os.linux.x...
On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:24:37 +0200, Aragorn wrote:
I've moved a Centos6 system to newer hardware with
NVIDIA GTX560M graphics. The Centos6 nouveau driver
version 1.0.10 can't handle it. From the man page it
seems version 1.0.11 can. How can I upgrade that package
(without upgrading the whole system)? (I know about the
NVIDIA drivers but I'd prefer the nouveau driver so I
won't have to rebuild the module whenever the kernel is
upgraded.)
A newer kernel should do it, because nouveau is part of
the upstream kernel sources. Also make sure you have the
latest linux-firmware package installed.
Thanks, but it doesn't seem to work. I've tried both
kernel-lt-3.10.101 and kernel-ml-4.5.0 from ELRepo (with
the corresponding kernel-headers and kernel-firmware) but I
can't get anything better than 1024x768. Do I need the newer
kernel packages *and* a newer xorg-x11-drv-nouveau?
Yes, the xorg-x11-drv nouveau driver should, ideally, match the nouveau version in the kernel, of course.
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