On 25/01/13 22:48, jdow wrote:
On 2013/01/25 13:31, Lamar Owen wrote:
On Jan 25, 2013, at 3:57 PM, jdow wrote:
To a degree I can sympathize with the elrepo people. Nvidia has
screwed up.
This is not the first time nvidia cards have gone 'legacy'. There are
now three supported legacy nvidia driver versions (304.xx, 173.xx, and
96.xx). Prior to 310.xx, there were but two.
After getting disgusted with ATI I abandoned them for Nvidia. Now
maybe I
need to figure out how good the support for Intel cards is these days.
Yeah, good luck with that.
But, still, the gentlemen at elrepo could have handled this a little
more
gracefully, methinks. It's a shame they're stuck in the middle here.
They
seem to be basically very good folks.
They handled it as gracefully as it could have been handled, since the
heads-up was posted on the elrepo list quite a while ago. I do think
that if one uses third party packages, one should follow at least the
announcement lists for each such repo.
It seems there should have been some way to cozen yum into sending the
administrator email regarding the process that needs to be taken. Better
yet would be a test for cards gone legacy. This could be added to the
install for a 304.65 driver update that is basically the same as 304.64
with the addition of a test program.
Firstly, apologies for reviving an old thread...
We have released a utility called nvidia-detect which will detect
supported NVIDIA graphics cards and determine which driver to use. See here:
http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2013-February/001652.html
You can install it from the elrepo repository with:
yum install nvidia-detect
In the post processing the test program is run.
It is my intention to call nvidia-detect from the %post install script
and echo a warning to the console should one attempt to install/update
to a driver version not supported by the detected hardware.
At best that test program should setup a sequence of yum steps to remove
the newly installed 305 drivers and install the 304xx legacy drivers.
Unfortunately due to the way RPM / Yum works, we can't stop you breaking
your system but we can warn you that you are about to break it and tell
you how to fix it.
