[CentOS] Nvidia Mod Update

Sun Feb 8 12:33:51 UTC 2015
Pete Geenhuizen <pete at geenhuizen.net>

On 02/08/15 06:12, Ned Slider wrote:
>
> On 08/02/15 05:09, S.Tindall wrote:
> Yes, just to reiterate:
>
> yum erase kmod-nvidia
> yum install kmod-nvidia-340xx
> reboot
>
> You will then be on the correct driver branch and will get the
> appropriate driver updates going forwards, no changes to yum necessary.
>
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I went through all this, and now that I have kmod-nvidia-340xx 
installed, but have you executed yum update or yum list updates?
If you do then yum  will want up upgrade you to the latest and greatest 
kmod-nvidia-346xx.
So other than modifying yum to exclude the nvidia driver how do you 
prevent the update in the future?

rpm -qa | grep nvidia
nvidia-detect-346.35-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-340.65-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
nvidia-x11-drv-340.65-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64

Output from yum list updates
Updated Packages
kmod-nvidia.x86_64                    346.35-1.el6.elrepo                 elrepo
nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64                 346.35-1.el6.elrepo                 elrepo


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