On 01/02/2013 11:51 AM, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 02/01/13 19:06, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>> On 12/29/2012 11:15 PM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
>>> On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Figured out my flash-plugin problem:
>>>>
>>>> If you are using flash-plugin higher than 11.1.102.63 and
>>>> you are getting reversed colors and artifacts in Firefox,
>>>> open a flash video right click in the video while it is playing,
>>>> go to "settings", "Display" (tab), unclick "Enable hardware
>>>> acceleration"
>>>
>>> Which graphics card (and driver) do you have ?
>>>
>>
>>
>> EVGA 01G-P3-1370-TR GeForce GTX 460 Graphics Card - PCI
>> Express 2.0 x16 - 1 GB GDDR5 SDRAM
>>
>> $ rpm -qa \*nvidia\*
>> nvidia-x11-drv-295.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
>> nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-295.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
>> kmod-nvidia-295.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
>>
>
> Your drivers are quite outdated (the current release is 310.19). At
> least two security issues have been fixed in subsequent releases:
>
> Fixed in 295.71
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.full-disclosure/86747
>
> Fixed in 295.40
> CVE-2012-0946
> http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3109/~/security-vulnerability-cve-2012-0946-in-the-nvidia-unix-driver
>
>
> Not to mention numerous bug fixes including a few affecting issues with
> flash.
>
> Any reason yum isn't automatically updating these for you?
Hi Phil,
Three reasons:
1) elrepo has a bad habit of not playing well with the other
children in the sandbox, especially RPM Forge. So I leave
the elrepo repo turned off. And as such, I am usually not
aware of an available update from it.
2) although I know how to cope with it (I made copious notes),
I have had a number of bad experiences with X11 not starting
after upgrading these drivers. It is a pain in the neck.
3) I am allergic to automatic updates. They make me say
words that are not in the dictionary (although "Microsoft"
actually is in the dictionary). This is a mission
critical machine. I can not be having bad updates crash me.
I have had this experience too many times. So, I look at
the update icon in my task bar to see if anything new is
available, then I review and choose what I wish to update.
And I know who got updated in case all hell breaks loose.
Just out of interest, I find less troubles with Fedora's
updates than SL's.
That being said, I just updated before writing you and
everything rebooted fine.
Wrote myself a script to do the update. And before anyone
asks, I use "su" instead of "sudo" because it is
far more trouble free. And, you will have to remove
Thunderbird's forced scroll on the "Cmd" line.
Thank you for the help! Very much appreciated.
-T
#!/bin/bash
Cmd="yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=elrepo* upgrade nvidia-x11-drv
nvidia-x11-drv-32bit kmod-nvidia"
echo "$Cmd"
su root -c "$Cmd"
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