[CentOS] nvidia on 7.6

Wed Feb 27 20:18:19 UTC 2019
Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org>

On 27/02/2019 18:55, Jerry Geis wrote:
> I have elrepo installed. rpm -qa | grep elrepo gives
> elrepo-release-7.0.3.el7.elrepo.noarch
> 
> nvidia detect (which installed) tells me kmod-nvidia-340xx
> 
> when I do yum install kmod-nvidia-340xx it is saying no package
> kmod-nvidia-340xx available ?
> 
> What did I miss? Thanks,
> 
> Jerry

Hi Jerry,

I removed the kmod-nvidia-340xx legacy driver package from elrepo 
because it was not compatible with the new libglvnd packages in el7.6.

In order for it to work, I'll need to update the package, and I just 
haven't found the time to get around to it yet. I was kinda hoping that 
since the 340xx legacy driver branch is old now, and support for it ends 
at the end of this year, we could get away with dropping it if no one 
was using it.

So, until I get around to updating it, your choices are to use the 
native nouveau driver or use the NVIDIA installer from nvidia's website 
to install the driver. Is there any reason you can't use the native 
nouveau driver and have to use the nvidia driver? I can't imagine 3D 
acceleration is of much concern to you given you're running 10 year old 
hardware that was entry level when it was first released.

I'll see if I can find some time this weekend to fix the elrepo package 
and get it reinstated into the repository.

Phil