On 2013/01/23 20:33, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:04 PM, jdow <[log in to unmask]> 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.)
>
> 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.

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.

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.

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.

{^_^}