[CentOS] moderate rant un updates

Thu Mar 14 14:24:35 UTC 2013
Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu>

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.