[CentOS] nvidia failure with new kernel
Michael D. Berger
m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 17 20:08:11 UTC 2011
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:07:03 +0000, Ned Slider wrote:
> On 17/01/11 18:44, Jason Brown wrote:
>> The kernel modules are only for that kernel, so anytime you update it
>> you also have to reinstall the nvidia drivers.
>>
>>
> Alternatively, you could use the nvidia driver packages from elrepo.org:
>
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
>
> which are kABI-tracking kmod packages that work seamlessly over a kernel
> update. They even work with the new 5.6 kernel and there are packages
> for el6 too.
>
> If you do decide to switch to the elrepo packages, please make sure you
> *uninstall* the current NVIDIA provided driver first. The page above has
> details on how to do that.
>
> Hope that helps.
After looking at the recommended web site, I did the uninstall,
and then ran:
yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-nvidia nvidia-x11-
drv 2>&1 | tee el.log
I got:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Error getting repository data for elrepo, repository not found
It seems that there may be another step.
Thanks for your help.
Mike.
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