Hey All,
Heads up!
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. That would be nice if the 310 driver supported my crusty old GS 7600 but it doesn't. I had to run two yum downgrade sessions to get it back to working again. First downgrade brought me 310.19-2, which doesn't support my video card, in place of 310.32. The second downgrade restored the 304 driver.
I'm not sure about this but that seems like a bug when it thinks that the 310 driver package is an upgrade for the 304 driver package.
Jan 23 21:43:39 Updated: kmod-nvidia-310.32-1.el6.elrepo.i686 Jan 23 21:43:49 Updated: nvidia-x11-drv-310.32-1.el6.elrepo.i686 Jan 24 00:43:58 Installed: kmod-nvidia-310.19-2.el6.elrepo.i686 Jan 24 00:44:10 Installed: nvidia-x11-drv-310.19-2.el6.elrepo.i686 Jan 24 00:59:38 Installed: kmod-nvidia-304.64-1.el6.elrepo.i686 Jan 24 00:59:49 Installed: nvidia-x11-drv-304.64-1.el6.elrepo.i686
I'm not sure about this but that seems like a bug when it thinks that the 310 driver package is an upgrade for the 304 driver package.
Jan 23 21:43:39 Updated: kmod-nvidia-310.32-1.el6.elrepo.i686 Jan 23 21:43:49 Updated: nvidia-x11-drv-310.32-1.el6.elrepo.i686 Jan 24 00:43:58 Installed: kmod-nvidia-310.19-2.el6.elrepo.i686 Jan 24 00:44:10 Installed: nvidia-x11-drv-310.19-2.el6.elrepo.i686 Jan 24 00:59:38 Installed: kmod-nvidia-304.64-1.el6.elrepo.i686 Jan 24 00:59:49 Installed: nvidia-x11-drv-304.64-1.el6.elrepo.i686
This doesn't appear to be a CentOS issue, possibly an elrepo issue.
Barry
Barry Brimer wrote:
I'm not sure about this but that seems like a bug when it thinks that the 310 driver package is an upgrade for the 304 driver package.
Jan 23 21:43:39 Updated: kmod-nvidia-310.32-1.el6.elrepo.i686 Jan 23 21:43:49 Updated: nvidia-x11-drv-310.32-1.el6.elrepo.i686 Jan 24 00:43:58 Installed: kmod-nvidia-310.19-2.el6.elrepo.i686 Jan 24 00:44:10 Installed: nvidia-x11-drv-310.19-2.el6.elrepo.i686 Jan 24 00:59:38 Installed: kmod-nvidia-304.64-1.el6.elrepo.i686 Jan 24 00:59:49 Installed: nvidia-x11-drv-304.64-1.el6.elrepo.i686
This doesn't appear to be a CentOS issue, possibly an elrepo issue.
it's actually more an nvidia issue: the newer drivers don't support some older GPUs. But since you're using elrepo you have an easy solution provided by these nice folks: they've created a new set of packages that will stay at the 304 level while getting any upstream updates.
You should probably do something such as: rpm -e --nodeps nvidia-x11-drv kmod-nvidia yum install nvidia-x11-drv-304xx kmod-nvidia-304xx
On 01/24/2013 01:18 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
Hey All,
Heads up!
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.
I've run into this on three CentOS 6+elrepo machines, including the laptop I'm using right now; two desktops with GeForce 6000 series and this laptop with a Quadro FX350M.
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
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