On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu wrote:
On 01/24/2013 01:18 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
For some reason the Software Updater thought it would be interesting for me if it upgraded my nvidia 304 driver with the nvidia 310.32-1 driver.
This would be elrepo's driver, right? You'll want to uninstall nvidia-x11-drv (which will take the kmod with it) and install nvidia-x11-drv-304xx instead (which will pull in the 304 legacy driver. You'll need to reinstall any dependent packages with it, so take notes when you do the uninstall of nvidia-x11-drv. Too bad yum doesn't do a 'yum replace nvidia-x11-drv nvidia-x11-drv-304xx' or similar.
This was posted on the elrepo mailing list a while back; if you use the elrepo drivers you really need to follow the elrepo list.
And this is at core an nvidia issue, since nvidia is the one changing their drivers.
Thanks, Nicolas and Lamar, for your helpful posts. Indeed, subscribing to the ELRepo mailing list is strongly recommended for anyone using ELRepo packages.
There is also a web page for the ELRepo Nvidia packages:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
A page specific for the 304xx driver is here:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia-304xx
Akemi