Lamar Owen wrote:
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?
GF100GL/Quadro 4000
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.
Nope, it does *not* use the legacy version. <snip>
Found the proprietary installer on the NVidia site, and I'm up. <rant, snort>
<snip>
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.
Ah, thanks on the dkms. So I'm back to figuring out a script to automagically build the driver when the user's workstation reboots (and make sure it prints out a warm fuzzy so they don't worry while it does it).
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