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. Thanks for your help. Mike.