[CentOS] nvidia on 7.6

[Phil Perry]

On 27/02/2019 20:29, Jerry Geis wrote:
>> I'll see if I can find some time this weekend to fix the elrepo package
>> and get it reinstated into the repository.
> 
>> Phil
> 
> 
> Hi Phil, Thanks for the reply. Your correct this is OLD hardware.
> Everything was working with 7.5 thought I was good to go so to speak
> ... So When I was starting now to migrate OLD boxes from CentOS 6 to
> 7.6 it wasnt working.
> 
> I can look at going "back" to using the NVIDIA binary, I had just
> recently switched the kmod-nvidia. :)
> 
> I'd rather "not" use nouvue(?) tried once way back and was not pleasant.
> 
> Thanks so much - I'll wait a few days to see if you have time to
> compile, before switching back to binary. Other issue with that...
> which is why kind folks suggested here to move to kmod-nvidia.
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 

No problem - I'll see if I can get it done this weekend, and let you 
know here if I have.

For now I'd say stick with the nouveau driver for a few days and see how 
it works for you, then if you feel the need to install the nvidia 
drivers once I've had a change to fix the package, the choice is yours.

Phil