Evidently people don't use the nvidia drivers much on x86_64.  We were missing 
nvidia-glx and nvidia-glx-devel.
They are there now and you should be able to do the install.

   yum --enablerepo=sl-contrib clean all
   yum --enablerepo=sl-contrib install kernel-module-nvidia-`uname -r`

Troy

Troy Dawson wrote:
> Looks like something got missed ... just a minute
> Troy
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> Robert E. Blair wrote:
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>> I am trying to kick the nvidia custom binaries direct from nvidia on an
>> x86-64 SL4.5 system.  When I try to yum install kernel-module-nvidia I get:
>>
>>  yum --enablerepo=sl-contrib install kernel-module-nvidia
>> Loading "kernel-module" plugin
>> Setting up Install Process
>> Setting up repositories
>> Reading repository metadata in from local files
>> Parsing package install arguments
>> Resolving Dependencies
>> - --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
>> - ---> Package kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.9-67.EL.x86_64 0:1.0.7676-0.SL.2
>> set to be updated
>> - --> Running transaction check
>> - --> Processing Dependency: nvidia-glx = 0:1.0.7676 for package:
>> kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.9-67.EL
>> - --> Processing Dependency: /usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display for package:
>> kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.9-67.EL
>> - --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>> Error: Missing Dependency: nvidia-glx = 0:1.0.7676 is needed by package
>> kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.9-67.EL
>> Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/sbin/nvidia-config-display is needed by
>> package kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.9-67.EL
>>
>> This does not depend on enabling the sl-contrib repo (i.e. same result
>> without the --enablerepo...).  How does one resolve these dependencies?
>>  Dag has one but not the other.  CERN has one but not the other.  No
>> combination appears to work.  Should the rest of the nvidia stuff be
>> somewhere in SL4.5?  Is there a proprietary piece I need to get?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help,
>> Bob Blair
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