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

[Phil Perry]

On 21/01/15 03:00, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> On 01/21/2015 01:53 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
>> 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.
> reboot should not be needed if you manually rmmod-ed the nvidia module.
> OTOH saving the xorg config prior to removing the old package might be a
> good idea, given that the erase process renames the config and the
> install scripts try to create a new one. In my case ( using yum shell
> and doing erase and install in a single transaction ) I was left with no
> config at all :)
> 

When I tested the packages I did:

yum erase kmod-nvidia
yum install kmod-nvidia-340xx
reboot

and that worked fine.

If you don't want to reboot then you would also need to rmmod the
nvidia-uvm module too.