On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:13 AM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> why dkms? >> use nvidia-x11-drv-173xx and kmod-nvidia-173xx from elrepo, the kmod is >> kabi-tracking. > > That's the one I think I'm using. Somehow, when I did my most recent > update, to kernel 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5, or whenever it did an X update, I > lose track, it installed dkms-nvidia-x11-drv. I want to prevent that > update from occurring in the future... and I may need to do it on some > users' systems, also with older nvidia cards. Try uninstalling the dkms stuff using yum like so: yum remove dkms-nvidia-x11-drv If you do not have any other dkms-dependent packages, you should remove all dkms-xxx. Akemi _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos