On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 04:01:07PM +0100, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
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> To add more fun, the -504 kernel ABI has changes in some agp... interfaces. Affects at least the nvidia-304 legacy driver. The 304xx packages ElRepo has now seem to be compatible with the -504 kernel, and thus are probably incompatible with earlier ones...
> 

Yes, saw that, too.

That was the outage two weeks ago. Users call "we get a black screen, we need this computer to monitor vacuum".

So I look, and indeed X11 dies from NULL pointer. Google the error messages shows that
there is a new 304xxx package. But cannot install - it requires the -504 kernel
that was not released until a week later. The 310xxx driver installed fine, though.

Luckily I only had just the one computer with such old drivers.

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