[elrepo] Centos 7.6 nvidia issue

Ken Bass kbass at kenbass.com
Tue Dec 4 15:12:16 EST 2018


Hi all, I have a 7.5 system and yum just updated to 7.6. I am at a loss 
on how to properly update the nvidia driver from elrepo.

Here is what is currently installed:

nvidia-x11-drv-390.87-1.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64
nvidia-detect-410.78-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
yum-plugin-nvidia-1.0.2-1.el7.elrepo.noarch
kmod-nvidia-390.87-1.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64

Yum update provides no suggestions - yum-plugin does blacklist some stuff.

I have a 'NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 730]'.

1) Looking at the elrepo, I see there is a 
'kmod-nvidia-390xx-390.87-2.el7_6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm'. However I do not 
see a corresponding 'nvidia-x11-drv-390' for centos 7.6. Is this an 
oversight or is there some other procedure I should be following?

2) nvidia-detect prints 'kmod-nvidia-390xx'. Why only this version? The 
nvidia website indicates 410 is compatible. Is this a bug in 
nvidia-detect? I do see a 
'nvidia-x11-drv-410.78-2.el7_6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm' and 
'nvidia-x11-drv-libs-410.78-2.el7_6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm'.

3) What is the purpose of the two 410 drv and drv-libs? I don't see that 
for other versions. Is this a new packaging?

4) What is the proper method f upgrading to the 410 from the existing, 
if that is okay?

Thanks



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