On Mar 14, 2013, at 10:17 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
So, another admin I work with rolled out most (but not kernel) updates to 6.4... but including xorg. I log out the end of the day, and I'm hosed - no X.
Now, my not-two-year-old workstation has an nvidia card, and I'd installed kmod-nvidia from elrepo.
Which card?
I try to upgrade kmod-nvidia from elrepo. Anyone got any good explanations as to why they'd put kmod-nvidia-310.40 in the repo, with the previous version not obvious...
You may need the legacy version; this is clearly documented on the current elrepo wiki pages about their nvidia modules.
If you do, you need to:
yum install nvidia-x11-drv-304xx
and all should be good.
Found the proprietary installer on the NVidia site, and I'm up. <rant, snort>
Unnecessary. You need the elrepo nvidia version detector to see if you need the 304 legacy driver.
Also, is dkms coming in, or deprecated?
Deprecated. The elrepo kmod works fine on any EL6 kernel thus far; my laptop, which needs the 304 legacy driver, updated to CentOS 6.4 just fine, before any elrepo updates.