[elrepo] Centos 7.6 nvidia issue

[Ken Bass]

On 12/4/18 4:54 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 04/12/2018 20:12, Ken Bass wrote:
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> The confusion comes from the fact that not all GT730's are created 
> equally. Some GT730 cards are based on older, now unsupported, 
> Fermi-based hardware, whilst others are based on newer Kepler-based 
> hardware. For example:

Ahh, I see. That is confusing, because I assumed while searching for 
drivers it was the 700 series. But Fermi architecture is actually the 
400 series. I assume we can blame the marketing people for these types 
of things.

After you mentioned this I searched and saw on nvidia "Critical security 
updates will be available on Fermi series GPUs through January 2019." So 
does that mean starting next month and with future centos versions (7.7) 
there will no longer be a 390xx driver? Or it will still be rebuilt but 
not updated?

> 4) What is the proper method f upgrading to the 410 from the existing, 
> if that is okay?
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> Uninstall your current kmod-nvidia and nvidia-x11-drv packages and 
> replace with kmod-nvidia-390xx and nvidia-x11-drv-390xx packages. This 
> way you will receive any security updates etc to the 390.xx driver 
> branch.

Ok, so I don't want the 410 driver for my Fermi based card.  Both 
nvidia-detect and your python plugin were helpful. It took me a while to 
figure out where those blacklist prints were originating from. I thought 
I had some exclude in the elrepo yum file and couldn't figure out what 
software in the yum flow was responsible for those prints!

So to avoid uninstalling dependencies, I'll use the --nodeps flag on the rpm

rpm -e kmod-nvidia-390.87-1.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64 
nvidia-x11-drv-390.87-1.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64 --nodeps

and then install the newer 390xx labeled versions.

yum install kmod-nvidia-390xx nvidia-x11-drv-390xx

That appeared to work fine, I've rebooted and X is working. Thanks for 
the guidance and thanks for elrepo.