[CentOS] Nvidia Mod Update

Sun Feb 8 14:24:12 UTC 2015
Pete Geenhuizen <pete at geenhuizen.net>

On 02/08/15 07:45, Ned Slider wrote:
>
> On 08/02/15 12:33, Pete Geenhuizen wrote:
> No, you don't have the package kmod-nvidia-340xx installed. You have
> kmod-nvidia VERSION 340.65. In the first example, the package NAME is
> kmod-nvidia-340xx (the -340xx is part of the package name, NOT the version).
>
> Please do as I advised:
>
> yum erase kmod-nvidia
> yum install kmod-nvidia-340xx
> reboot
>
> Because you now no longer have package kmod-nvidia installed, yum will
> not try to update you to the latest version. You will stay forever on
> the 340.xx branch which is the last version to support your hardware.
>
> Hope that helps
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Oops, yup right you are, kinda missed that small but important detail.

Thx.
Pete

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