[elrepo] Latest nvidia release [310.19] drops support for older 6xxx and 7xxx series cards

Phil Perry phil at elrepo.org
Wed Jan 2 14:35:38 EST 2013


On 02/01/13 05:11, Steve Cleveland wrote:
>> I've just built and released the 304xx legacy packages for both el5 and
>> el6 to their respective testing repositories (based on the 304.64
>> release). They should show up on the mirrors shortly.
>>
>> I've not yet tested these packages. I would suggest that one uninstalls
>> kmod-nvidia and then installs kmod-nvidia-304xx. The corresponding X11
>> driver packages are named nvidia-x11-drv-304xx in line with previous
>> legacy releases.
>>
>> Please test and let me know if you hit any issues. I'll try to test them
>> later today myself.
>
> Thanks for all of the hard work. I've tested the packages on an el5 and
> an el6 host. Seems to work fine.
>
> - Steve

Many thanks Steve.

I still haven't had time to test them myself. I'll try to get them 
tested here too and roll them out to the main repo before then next 
nvidia release hits us.

Thanks again,

Phil




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