[CentOS] Strange crash after NVidia driver installation from ELRepo

Tue Mar 3 17:45:06 UTC 2015
Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com>

On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 05:08:10PM +0100, info at microlinux.fr wrote:
> Le 03.03.2015 17:00, Steve Thompson a écrit :
> >On Tue, 3 Mar 2015, info at microlinux.fr wrote:
> >
> >Any suggestions?
> >
> >There are multiple nvidia drivers in Elrepo, depending on the model of
> >video card. Install and run nvidia-detect to find out which driver you
> >need; just installing the "kmod-nvidia" package is not guaranteed to
> >give you a working driver.
> 
> I used nvidia-detect, and installed kmod-nvidia. Even then, the
> previous installation ran kmod-nvidia with success on twin monitors.

This might have to do with the NVidia update, explained on the elrepo
pages.

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia

You may have an older card that will require the 340xx versions of the
various NVidia tools.

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Scott Robbins
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