[elrepo] NVIDIA is dropping support for G8xx, G9xx and GT2xx chipsets

[Fred Smith]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 06:41:24PM +0000, Phil Perry wrote:
> Bump to say NVIDIA have released 346.35 as their new Long Lived driver.
> 
> We have built this driver and it's now available in the testing repository.
> 
> THIS DRIVER DROPS SUPPORT FOR OLDER G8xxx, G9xxx, and GT2xx GPUs
> 
> Users with older unsupported cards should migrate to the legacy
> kmod-nvidia-340xx package.
> 
> If at all unsure, please update and run the latest version of
> nvidia-detect to determine the correct driver for your card.
> 
> The new 346.35 driver packages will stay in testing for at least a week
> to allow users time to migrate.
> 
> Please ask if you are unsure.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Phil

OK, I just attempted to install these, but to no avail. (On Centos-6)

in runlevel 3, I did "yum remove" of the 340.xx packages then attempted
"yum localinstall" of the 346.xx packages.

Yum takes about a half second to say "examining <package name>" for
each package then says "Nothing to do".

worse, it now says the same thing if I attempt to reinstall the 340.xx
packages.

Can you advise as regards whatever stupid mistake I'm making?

thanks!

Fred
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