Sounds great, thanks for your work!
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:23:36 +0000 Phil Perry <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
