On 17/01/11 20:08, Michael D. Berger wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:07:03 +0000, Ned Slider wrote:
>
>> On 17/01/11 18:44, Jason Brown wrote:
>>> The kernel modules are only for that kernel, so anytime you update it
>>> you also have to reinstall the nvidia drivers.
>>>
>>>
>> Alternatively, you could use the nvidia driver packages from elrepo.org:
>>
>> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
>>
>> which are kABI-tracking kmod packages that work seamlessly over a kernel
>> update. They even work with the new 5.6 kernel and there are packages
>> for el6 too.
>>
>> If you do decide to switch to the elrepo packages, please make sure you
>> *uninstall* the current NVIDIA provided driver first. The page above has
>> details on how to do that.
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>
> After looking at the recommended web site, I did the uninstall,
> and then ran:
>
> yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-nvidia nvidia-x11-
> drv 2>&1 | tee el.log
>
> I got:
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
> Error getting repository data for elrepo, repository not found
>
> It seems that there may be another step.
>
Please see the Getting Started instructions here:
http://elrepo.org/
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