[CentOS-docs] proposed nvidia wiki page

Mon Sep 14 17:26:49 UTC 2009
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:

> Over the weekend, I played with the elrepo-testing version.  It was
> pretty much (after having installed the nvidia drivers from NVidia)
>
> nvidia-uninstall
>
> to get rid of what I'd downloaded.
>
> Then
>
> yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=elrepo-testing install kmod-nvidia
>
> which pulls in the driver as well, of course.

> Main advantage, I think is the kmod part, so that if one plays around
> with different kernels, it should be taken care of--in theory at least
> haven't tried different kernels yet.

Indeed, I updated a system loaded with kmod-nvidia to the 5.4 kernel
and it worked seamlessly.  No need to rebuild the driver.

Akemi