[elrepo] Centos 7.6 nvidia issue

[Phil Perry]

On 21/01/2019 12:21, Brian Smith wrote:
> Just reporting my experience with the CentOS 7.5 -> 7.6 update 
> coincidental with needing to switch from kmod-nvidia -> kmod-nvidia-390xx
> 
> # yum update
> 
> reports conflicts between different kmod-nvidia versions.
> 
> Trying to change kmod-nvidia first
> 
> # yum erase kmod-nvidia
> # yum install kmod-nvidia-390xx
> 

Yes, the latest nvidia packages (including the legacy series) require 
some el7.6 packages. However, I would expect yum to be able to resolve 
the required dependencies and pull in / update the required packages 
from el7.6.

If you are able to post the failed transaction, I'd be happy to take a look.

> reveals conflicts between libglvnd-egl and mesa-libEGL etc. Solution is 
> to update mesa-libEGL first
> 
> # yum update mesa-libEGL
> 
> and then install libglvnd-egl
> 
> # yum install libglvnd-egl
> 
> before installing the 390xx driver
> 
> # yum install kmod-nvidia-390xx
> 
> and finishing the update
> 
> # yum update
> 
> Maybe time for another update to the kmod-nvidia package page?
> 
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
>