On 05/09/17 14:11, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > 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 > The elrepo kmod-nvidia drivers (or any kmods for that point) will only work with the distro kernel as they depend on the stable kernel ABI that Red Hat maintains in their kernel releases. They will not work with non-distro kernels.