Lamar Owen wrote: > 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? GF100GL/Quadro 4000 > >> 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. Nope, it does *not* use the legacy version. <snip> >> Found the proprietary installer on the NVidia site, and I'm up. >> <rant, snort> <snip> >> 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. Ah, thanks on the dkms. So I'm back to figuring out a script to automagically build the driver when the user's workstation reboots (and make sure it prints out a warm fuzzy so they don't worry while it does it). mark