On Mar 14, 2013, at 10:17 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > So, another admin I work with rolled out most (but not kernel) > updates to > 6.4... but including xorg. I log out the end of the day, and I'm > hosed - > no X. > > Now, my not-two-year-old workstation has an nvidia card, and I'd > installed > kmod-nvidia from elrepo. Which card? > I try to upgrade kmod-nvidia from elrepo. Anyone got any good > explanations > as to why they'd put kmod-nvidia-310.40 in the repo, with the previous > version not obvious... You may need the legacy version; this is clearly documented on the current elrepo wiki pages about their nvidia modules. If you do, you need to: yum install nvidia-x11-drv-304xx and all should be good. > Found the proprietary installer on the NVidia site, and I'm up. > <rant, snort> > Unnecessary. You need the elrepo nvidia version detector to see if you need the 304 legacy driver. > Also, is dkms coming in, or deprecated? Deprecated. The elrepo kmod works fine on any EL6 kernel thus far; my laptop, which needs the 304 legacy driver, updated to CentOS 6.4 just fine, before any elrepo updates.