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.

In the post processing the test program is run.

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. I
suspect it would take fairly little script-fu to do either just the email
or the full reinstall magilla. For the emailing this line should work:

mail -v -s "Your Nvidia graphics card is going legacy" root <msg >/dev/null

Just install a batch file with that line and the "msg" text then run it
if the test program reports the board is unsupported. That message could
have the update script embedded within it for easy reinstallation.

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