On 24/01/13 06:04, jdow wrote:
On 2013/01/23 20:33, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:04 PM, jdow <j...@earthlink.net> wrote:
On 2013/01/23 19:27, Alan Bartlett wrote:

I fail to see the significance -- or relevance -- of your last
sentence.

Please remember this is the main support channel for Scientific Linux.

Alan.


It's not this channel's support issue. I understand that. This is why
I wondered if 6.2 was going to have a kernel update.

ElRepo pushed the newer 310 NVidia modules before any appropriate kernel
appeared on SL2. So I have to back off. I simply wondered if waiting for
a new kernel was practical or not.

And that's been answered. ElRepo messed up pushing updates. (Or else
there should be a more recent kernel for 6.2 than what I am running,
2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64.)

Not true.


Let me post once again the link I provided for you earlier in this
thread. I'm afraid you missed it.

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia-304xx

That page has a list of supported GPUs. This is all about the hardware
you have and the version of Nvidia's driver that supports it. Which
kernel version is _not_ relevant.

You may also want to check out this post on the ELRepo's mailing list:

http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2013-January/001587.html

I quoted an essential part of it in my earlier post as well. I
strongly suggest you subscribe to the ELRepo general mailing list. If
you still have questions about the Nvidia-related packages offered by
ELRepo, please ask on the ELRepo's list.

With all due respect, Akemi, I'd like you to note two details.


With all due respect you are not listening to what people are telling you. Akemi is right and you are wrong.

First the message you point to is for version 304. ElRepo pushed 310.
Before that program load I was up to date with nVidia as well as kernel.
I'm not sure if I had 304 or earlier. Given the date, that is the version
I had loaded as of yesterday when 310 replaced it.


Here is the announcement I made back in November that the 310.xx series nvidia drivers were dropping support for older 6xxx and 7xxx based hardware:

http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2012-November/001525.html

We've been planning this migration for 2 months. May I suggest that if you are going to use elrepo packages then you subscribe to the elrepo mailing list where you will find out such important information first hand. It really is very low volume.

Second I get this message in the dmesg log from a reboot this morning.
===8<---
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a GPU installed in this system is
NVRM: supported through the NVIDIA 304.xx Legacy drivers. Please
NVRM: visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
NVRM: information. The 310.32 NVIDIA driver will ignore
NVRM: this GPU. Continuing probe...
NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
===8<---

Apparently the kernel or something does NOT supported with 310. So pushing
the 310 was apparently an error of overoptimism for this system. I'd have
expected the RPM to take this into account. But this is an ElRepo issue
not one from here. So I've tried to be brief. I see I had to give up that
effort.


No, this is the nvidia driver telling you that your hardware is no longer supported. It even tells you that you need the NVIDIA 304.xx Legacy drivers.

The elrepo-packaged nvidia driver currently supports all kernels from SL6.1 through SL6.3.

That said it appears I have to go back to 304 and turn off elrepo updates,
which is moderately inconvenient. The Nvidia 7025 is embedded on the
motherboard that is less than a year old. So I figure SOMETHING screwed
up if it's no longer supported.


That's correct - you need to stay at the 304.xx driver as this is the *last* driver that will support your older hardware (7xxx based chipset). We released the legacy kmod-nvidia-304xx and nvidia-x11-drv-304xx packages to aid in this (see the thread linked above) and pushed them out to the main repo *before* we released the updated 310.xx series drivers.

Please uninstall the kmod-nvidia driver and install the kmod-nvidia-304xx and then you can continue to receive updates from elrepo.

Nothing screwed up, nvidia simply decided it was time to move on from supporting aging hardware (~8 years old?) in the current driver release.

Regards,

Phil

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