On 17/01/11 20:08, Michael D. Berger wrote: > 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. > Please see the Getting Started instructions here: http://elrepo.org/