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

[Lamar Owen]

On 01/20/2015 06:17 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>
> 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?
>
You need a reboot between the 'yum erase kmod-nvidia' and the 'yum 
install kmod-nvidia-340xx' in my experience.