[elrepo] Announcement: EL5/EL6 Updated LTS NVIDIA drivers [version 295.71]

[Phil Perry]

Announcing the release of updated LTS kmod-nvidia packages in the EL5 and
EL6 elrepo repositories.

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia

The following packages are currently syncing to the mirrors.

*EL5*
x86
kmod-nvidia-295.71-1.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm
kmod-nvidia-PAE-295.71-1.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm
nvidia-x11-drv-295.71-1.el5.elrepo.i386.rpm

x86-64
kmod-nvidia-295.71-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
nvidia-x11-drv-295.71-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-295.71-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

*EL6*
x86
kmod-nvidia-295.71-1.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm
nvidia-x11-drv-295.71-1.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm

x86-64
kmod-nvidia-295.71-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
nvidia-x11-drv-295.71-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-295.71-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

These releases are built to depend upon the specific ABI provided by a
range of releases of the same variant of the Linux kernel and not on any
one specific build.

This is a LTS release that fixes a security issue. Please see:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.full-disclosure/86747
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3140

You can update your system by:

yum update kmod-nvidia

Please reboot your system after applying this update.


Thank you,

The ELRepo Team.