[elrepo] Announcement: Updated kmod-nvidia and nvidia-x11-drv [195.36.03] packages in testing

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

Phil Perry wrote:
> Announcing the release of updated kmod-nvidia and nvidia-x11-drv
> packages to the elrepo-testing repository:
>
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
>
> i386
> kmod-nvidia-195.36.03-1.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm
> kmod-nvidia-PAE-195.36.03-1.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm
> nvidia-x11-drv-195.36.03-1.el5.elrepo.i386.rpm
>
> x86-64
> kmod-nvidia-195.36.03-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> nvidia-x11-drv-195.36.03-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-195.36.03-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>
> On x86-64 architecture, the 32-bit compatibility libs have now been
> separated into a separate sub-package [1]. If you need the 32-bit
> compatibility libs installed on x86_64, then:
>
> 'yum install nvidia-x11-drv-32bit'
>
> alongside the existing kmod-nvidia and nvidia-x11-drv packages.
>
> These latest packages are built against the RHEL 5.4 series kernel and
> are kABI compliant with RHEL 5.3 and 5.4 series kernels. This release is
> not compatible with older kernel series.
>
> Please test and feedback either here or on the bug tracker.

Hi,

I just upgraded an x86_64 system to this version.
This is on a fully up to date C5 system.

It's AOK AFAICT.
The upgrade works fine - although I did have to manually install 
nvidia-x11-drv-32bit, required by an i486 adobe reader that I have here.
After a reboot the new module is loaded, xorg.conf is still good and 
/var/log/Xorg.0.log doesn't report anything suspicious.

Thanks!

Regards,
Nicolas