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

[Konstantin Olchanski]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 06:41:24PM +0000, Phil Perry wrote:
> 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.
> The new 346.35 driver packages ...
> 

Hi, thank you for this information.

For machines with the dropped GPUs, what is the recommended procedure
for moving from kmod-nvidia to kmod-nvidia-340xx?

yum erase kmod-nvidia
yum install kmod-nvidia-340xx
killall Xorg
rmmod nvidia
killall gdm-binary

Is that right?

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