[elrepo] Nvidia 340.xx driver question

[Fred Smith]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 01:40:29PM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> 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

thanks Akemi.

but I don't have the "new" one installed right now 'cause it messes
up the system.

And I was mistaken, anyway, having just rechecked the nvidia site,
which shows 340.xx for the old, and 346.xx for the "new" cards.

so it looks as if I need to get the 346.xx from elrepo, remove the
current 340.xx and install the 346.xx. 

but it looks like elrepo doesn't have the 346 driver. Is there going
to be one there in the future? (I know, I need to run nvidia-detect,
and for that I have to take apart the system again, which I'll do in
a little while.)

Fred

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