[elrepo] Keyboard ceases functioning after install of kmod-nvidia-340xx

[Manuel Wolfshant]

Sorry, I pressed send before correcting the text and there are plenty of 
typos inside. Probably I should stop debugging my xen issues and mailing 
in the same time at 2:40 AM
Anyway, please see below a few corrections ...





On 6/24/20 2:44 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>> I just read on an old post that it can take quite some time before 
>> old kernels get moved to the vault repo, so this is probably another 
>> dead end.
>
> Whatever post you read is either wrong or you misinterpreted what it 
> said. The content is in vault , you can easily verify by going 
> tohttp://vault.centos.org/8.1.1911/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/ . There 
> never was a distinction between kernel packages and the other 
> packages. All the content it relocated as a whole.
>
> And, with my had
>
No idea what a "had" is. I meant "hat".


> of member of the centos qa team on, I can tell you this: the content 
> on the mirrors is/was NEVER removed prior to being copied to the vault 
> so you would find the required content either in the original place 
> (i.e. on the mirrors ) or in the vault. They even do overlap for a 
> short period of time, existing in both places in the same time.
>
>


>>
>> But this was 100% caused by the ELRepo packages. Literally nothing 
>> else changed from when the keyboard worked to when it didn't. I 
>> powered the machine on, I installed the ELRepo packages, I rebooted 
>> and now the keyboard doesn't work. There weren't any other changes 
>> made. Nothing.
>
> Except for the fact that the elrepo packages you have installed do not 
> touch the keyboard settings. Basically they just place the driver 
> files provided by NVidia in the apropriate kernel directories and 
> respectively in X's directories, instruct the system to use them and 
> that's pretty much all.
>
> And certainly they should not have any effect post install.
>
read as : post UNinstall