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

[Fred Smith]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 08:09:35PM +0000, Phil Perry wrote:
> 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
> 

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


Ah. a stupid newbie error. And I'm no newbie, which makes it doubly
embarrassing... :(

I had an exclude statement in /etc/yum.conf for kmod-nvidia and nvidia-x11.

Funny how fixing one's broken configuration can such a huge difference! :)

Thanks, Phil.

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