[CentOS] nvidia failure with new kernel

[Bowie Bailey]

On 1/17/2011 3:08 PM, Michael D. Berger wrote:
>
> 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.

You do need to set up elrepo if you have not used it before. 
Instructions are here:

    http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php

You will probably also want to install the yum priorities plugin to
avoid conflicts between elrepo and the base repos (or any other
third-party repos you may use).

    http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities

-- 
Bowie