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

[Phil Perry]

Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
> 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.
> 

Hi Nicolas,

Thanks for the feedback :)

I take it from your comment yum didn't resolve the dependency for 
nvidia-x11-drv-32bit automatically? I guess that would depend on the 
Requires present in the Adobe package.