Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Mar 14, 2013, at 10:17 AM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> So, another admin I work with rolled out most (but not kernel)
>> updates to 6.4... but including xorg. I log out the end of the day, and
I'm
>> hosed - no X.
>>
>> Now, my not-two-year-old workstation has an nvidia card, and I'd
>> installed kmod-nvidia from elrepo.
>
> Which card?
GF100GL/Quadro 4000
>
>> I try to upgrade kmod-nvidia from elrepo. Anyone got any good
>> explanations as to why they'd put kmod-nvidia-310.40 in the repo, with
the previous
>> version not obvious...
>
> You may need the legacy version; this is clearly documented on the
> current elrepo wiki pages about their nvidia modules.
Nope, it does *not* use the legacy version.
<snip>
>> Found the proprietary installer on the NVidia site, and I'm up.
>> <rant, snort>
<snip>
>> Also, is dkms coming in, or deprecated?
>
> Deprecated. The elrepo kmod works fine on any EL6 kernel thus far;
> my laptop, which needs the 304 legacy driver, updated to CentOS 6.4
> just fine, before any elrepo updates.
Ah, thanks on the dkms. So I'm back to figuring out a script to
automagically build the driver when the user's workstation reboots (and
make sure it prints out a warm fuzzy so they don't worry while it does
it).
mark
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