[elrepo] Nvidia 340.xx driver question

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Fred Smith
<fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm trying to switch out my nvidia card for a newer (but not NEW) one,
> but one which Nvidia says requires the same driver (so it's not a bleeding
> edge update).
>
> THE POINT:
> So, I'm wondering if I need to do something to force the nvidia driver
> to be rebuilt, since the "new" card is a different chipset? And if so,
> how? I'm guessing I could boot to single-user mode and do:
>
> yum erase kmod-nvidia nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64 nvidia-x11-drv-32bit.x86_64
> yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing install kmod-nvidia-340xx  nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64 nvidia-x11-drv-32bit.x86_64

Please install nvidia-detect from ELRepo and run it. It will identify
your Nvidia card and tell you which Nvidia driver (package) to use.

Akemi