[elrepo] Today's nvidia 340xx update

Phil Perry phil at elrepo.org
Mon Aug 3 15:30:02 EDT 2015


Hi Graham,

On 03/08/15 19:30, Graham Allan wrote:
> I've had a handful of machines update their nvidia driver and after
> reboot X no longer works.
> 
> I notice that kmod-nvidia updated to kmod-nvidia-340xx-340.76-2 but
> the x11 driver stayed at nvidia-x11-drv-340xx-340.76-1. Could that be a
> problem? 

No

> Downgrading the kmod to kmod-nvidia-340xx-340.76-1 gets things
> working again.
> 
> Is it an oversight that there's no 340.76-2 x11 driver, or am I looking
> in the wrong place for my issue?
> 

kmod-nvidia-340xx was rebuilt against the RHEL-6.7 kernel
(kernel-2.6.32-573.el6) to fix this issue:

http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=583

What kernel are you running?

> Thanks,
> 
> Graham
> 



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