[CentOS] Kernel 4.12 and nVidia Driver

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am 05.09.2017 um 06:16 schrieb Eugene Poole:
> I tried to move to the latest stable kernel (4.12) so I could take 

"latest stable kernel (4.12) - that's not a CentOS project kernel. Can 
we guess that you are using the ELrepo kernel-ml?

> advantage of my newest custom system (Intel Core I7 6-core; 64 GB RAM; 
> MSI nVidia graphics card; 2 - 120 GB SSD; 2 - 4TB WD Black) on a UEFI 
> Asrock mother board.
> 
> I've had the machine for 3-months but I couldn't get it to work until I 
> found out that the Nouveau driver was causing me all the 'hardware' 
> issues. I moved to the nVidia driver along with DKMS and all of my 
> issues went away until I attempted to upgrade kernel 4.12 ...
> 
> It seems that DKMS doesn't automatically upgrade when the kernel is 
> upgraded.  Will this issue go away if I change my graphics card to a AMD?

A bit dated, but it holds basic info about DKMS

https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules#head-d313bd351f90d4f25a2143b7bbcff73f927731f0

Instead of using DKMS, the kmod-nvidia driver from ELrepo does not fit 
for your graphics card? Or any of the other kmod-nvidia* kernel module 
packages from there?

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

Alexander