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

[Phil Perry]

On 18/01/15 20:00, Fred Smith wrote:
> 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.
> 

You don't need to uninstall the previous drivers if you are doing a
straight update. Just do:

yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing update kmod-nvidia

> 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?
> 

If you want the older 340.xx release, just do:

yum install kmod-nvidia

If you want the newer 346.35 release from the testing repo:

yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing install kmod-nvidia

> thanks!
> 
> Fred
>