[elrepo] Issues with kmod-nvidia listing for EL7

[Fred Smith]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:53:57AM -0700, Scott Kasai wrote:
> On 03/14/2017 10:16 AM, Fred Smith wrote:
> >do you have nvidia excluded from yum in, perhaps /etc/yum.conf?
> >I did, for a while, because of breakage in later versions of nvidia
> >drivers causing FoldingAtHome to repeatedly fail. but that issue is
> >fixed now so I don't need it there anymore.
> >
> >Fred
> 
> Yum versionlock got me...  It wasn't in /etc/yum.conf, but was in
> /etc/yum/pluginconf.d, and it was there...
> 
> Didn't think it would block out trying to manually pull new versions.
> 
> Next question I have is if anyone had issues with kmod-nvidia for
> the CentOS 7 Core 3.10.0-514.10.2?  I can get it working under
> 3.10.0-514.2.2, but under 10.2, lsmod can't find the nvidia module.

Scott:

The elrepo folks were posting a week or two ago about that CentOS
kernel update breaking the Nvidia ABI (again). Latest Nvidia packages
from elrepo will work with the 514.10.2 kernel on CentOS.

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