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 == graphics cards and drivers ==
-* [http://www.nvidia.com NVidia] (proprietary driver download for Linux at [http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html]; "Latest cards" list at [http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_18897.html], "Legacy cards" list at [http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html]). RedHat/Fedora/Debian/[K]Ubuntu installation information can be found at [http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490]. In particular, for RedHat/Fedora one needs to install the kernel-devel RPM package.
+=== NVidia ===
-The proprietary driver works well but it needs a bit of care. On RedHat systems that are regularly booted, the following lines in /etc/rc.local result in the necessary parts of the driver being re-installed automatically after booting:
+* [http://www.nvidia.com NVidia] - proprietary driver download for Linux at [http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html]
+* "Latest cards" list at [http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_18897.html]
+* "Legacy cards" list at [http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html]
+* RedHat/Fedora/Debian/[K]Ubuntu installation information can be found at [http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490]. In particular, for RedHat/Fedora one needs to install the kernel-devel RPM package. Other than this, the information in that posting seems a bit overkill - the NVidia driver usually works very well without any SElinux jiggling.
-<code>
+==== checking the integrity of the NVidia driver ====
- if [ ! -h /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so ]; then
-   echo "re-installing NVIDIA driver. This takes some time. Ignore any warnings."
-   /root/NVIDIA.run --no-network -s -n
- fi
- if [ ! -e /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko ]; then
-   echo "installing NVIDIA kernel module. This takes some time. Ignore any warnings."
-   /root/NVIDIA.run --no-network -s -K -n
- fi
-</code>
-This requires that you first "chmod +x" the driver package (e.g. NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.04-pkg1.run) downloaded from the NVidia site, and then establish a symbolic link from it, to /root/NVIDIA.run .
+If everything is ok with the driver, you get the following output from "glxinfo|head":
-If everything is ok with the driver you get the following output from "glxinfo|head":
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+==== maintaining the NVidia driver ====
+The proprietary driver works well but it needs a bit of care. More to the point: parts of it need to be re-installed after kernel updates and updates of xorg-x11-* (both of which happen regularly).
+On RedHat systems that are regularly booted, the following lines in /etc/rc.local result in the necessary parts of the driver being re-installed automagically after booting:
+<code>
+ if [ ! -h /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so ]; then
+   echo "re-installing NVIDIA driver. This takes some time. Ignore any warnings."
+   /root/NVIDIA.run --no-network -s -n
+ fi
+ if [ ! -e /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko ]; then
+   echo "installing NVIDIA kernel module. This takes some time. Ignore any warnings."
+   /root/NVIDIA.run --no-network -s -K -n
+ fi
+</code>
+This requires that you first "chmod +x" the driver package (e.g. NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.04-pkg1.run) downloaded from the NVidia site, and then establish a symbolic link from it, to /root/NVIDIA.run .
+=== ATI ===
-* [[ATI]] (now belonging to AMD) (proprietary driver download at http://ati.amd.com)
+ATI now belongs to AMD. Download the proprietary driver from http://ati.amd.com .
 == 3D ==
 * [[3D visualization]]