[elrepo] Announcement: EL5 and EL6 Updated nvidia-detect packages released [331.20]

[Phil Perry]

Announcing the release of new nvidia-detect packages into the EL5 and 
EL6 elrepo repositories:

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

nvidia-detect is a utility to detect supported NVIDIA graphics cards and 
recommend the correct NVIDIA graphics driver to use.

The following updated packages are available to install:

EL5:
nvidia-detect-331.20-1.el5.elrepo.i386.rpm
nvidia-detect-331.20-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
nvidia-detect-331.20-1.el5.elrepo.src.rpm

EL6:
nvidia-detect-331.20-1.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm
nvidia-detect-331.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
nvidia-detect-331.20-1.el6.elrepo.src.rpm

This release adds detection for supported hardware added to the upstream 
331.20 driver release.

In addition, a number of new features have been added as described below:

1. Running nvidia-detect with the --list command line argument lists all 
supported devices for all upstream drivers. This feature is useful when 
used in combination with grep to search for a specific hardware device. 
For example, want to know if that GTX690 is supported:

$ nvidia-detect --list | grep 690
[10de:1188] NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 690]


2. Xorg Server compatibility tests. nvidia-detect now performs Xorg 
Server compatibility tests to determine if the driver for the detected 
device supports the current Xorg Server. By default nvidia-detect will 
warn the user if the compatibility tests fail. If you wish to see the 
results from the Xorg Server compatibility tests then run nvidia-detect 
with the --xorg command line argument:

$ nvidia-detect --xorg
Probing for supported NVIDIA devices...
[10de:0ca3] NVIDIA Corporation GT215 [GeForce GT 240]
This device requires the current 331.20 NVIDIA driver kmod-nvidia

Checking ABI compatibility with Xorg Server...
Xorg Video Driver ABI detected: 13
ABI compatibility check passed

These compatibility tests were introduced as Red Hat has recently been 
updating the Xorg Server in RHEL6. For example, the Xorg Server in 
RHEL6.4 was updated to version 13 but the older 96.xx legacy NVIDIA 
drivers only support an Xorg ABI of up to 12 resulting in an 
incompatibility. nvidia-detect will now check for such incompatibilities 
when making driver recommendations.


The nvidia-detect project is maintained at our github repository and 
contributions are welcome:

https://github.com/elrepo/packages/tree/master/nvidia-detect

Bugs for nvidia-detect should be reported at http://elrepo.org/bugs

Thank you,

The ELRepo Team.