On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Jeff Layton laytonjb@att.net wrote:

Good afternoon,

I've been running a CentOS 5.5 system for a while using some Nvidia drivers for an older Nvidia card (GeForce 6200 card). I'd like to upgrade to 5.8 using yum but I was curious if anyone has done this using yum? Any gotchas? (I can handle the Nvidia upgrade part once the system is upgraded).

'yum update' should do the job. You might want to do some stepwise updates according to :

http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.6#head-60758eb5ab66c94f9...

yum clean all yum update glibc* yum update yum* rpm* pyth* yum clean all yum update mkinitrd nash yum update selinux* yum update shutdown -r now

BTW - I'm using driver 256.35 and looking at Nvidia's site it looks like 304.51 is the latest (I'm running 32-bit believe it or not).

I suggest you look into ELRepo's kmod-nvidia :

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia-96xx http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia-173xx

(You need to find the version that works for your device)

Once installed, there is no need to rebuild for each kernel update.

Akemi