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.