[elrepo] Centos 7.6 nvidia issue

[Fred Smith]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:27:42AM -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote:
>    On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:39 AM Fred Smith
>    <[1]fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
> 
>      I'm still trying to get my Centos-7.5 box up to 7.6. I had hoped
>      that the recipe above would work for me, but it does not.
>      Attempting to do "yum erase kmod-nvidia" spews a long list of
>      apparently
>      unrelated packages that will be purged along with it, so I didn't do
>      that.
>      Trying the "yum install kmod-nvidia" (note that the 390xx package is
>      no longer the latest one so I didn't specify that) attempts to
>      install
>      a whole ton (or two) of other packages which fails with more
>      conflicts.
>      I don't think I should try explicitly installing the 390xx package
>      since
>      i already have (kmod-nvidia.x86_64           410.73-1.el7_5.elrepo
>        @elrepo"
>      installed. I further note that epel now has 410.93 available.
> 
>    What I did was run a script that had a yum shell command:
>    script:
>    #!/bin/bash
>    # Clean out the old packages with no script
>    rpm -ev --noscripts kmod-nvidia nvidia-x11-drv nvidia-x11-drv-32bit
>    # update system
>    yum clean metadata
>    yum -y shell /root/upgrade-nvidia-390xx.yumsh
>    and the upgrade-nvidia-390xx.yumsh file:
>    # start
>    remove kmod-nvidia nvidia-x11-drv nvidia-x11-drv-32bit
>    install kmod-nvidia-390xx nvidia-x11-drv-390xx
>    nvidia-x11-drv-390xx-32bit
>    upgrade
>    transaction run
>    # end
>    --
>    Jonathan Billings <[2]jsbillin at umich.edu>
>    College of Engineering - CAEN - Unix and Linux Support

Jonathan, thanks for the prompt response!

Couple of questions:
1. in the yumsh script, is the nvidia-x11-drv-390xx-32-bit supposed to be on a line by itself, or as part of the line above?

2. I still don't understand why we're installing the nvidia 390xx packages...
elrepo has 410.xx packages that (according to nvidia-detect) are the correct
ones for my GTX 750 Ti.

thanks again!

Fred
> 
> References
> 
>    1. mailto:fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
>    2. mailto:jsbillin at umich.edu

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