Alan Bartlett wrote:
> On 28 April 2010 14:10, Alan Bartlett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On 27 April 2010 21:54, Mark Stodola <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> Hey everyone,
>>>
>>> I currently have deployed a number of SL 5.2 i386 machines.
> 
> Mark,
> 
> Further to my earlier message, I have re-read your initial sentence above.
> 
> A SL 5.2 system will be using a kernel from the 2.6.18-92.x.y.el5
> series. Unfortunately the kmod-nvidia[-*] packages that are available
> from ELRepo, although being kABI tracking, will only weak-link back to
> the 2.6.18-128.x.y.el5 kernel series (i.e. SL 5.3) and not, like many
> of the other packages, back to the original 2.6.18-8.x.y.el5 kernels.
> 
> So having raised your hopes, I now have to dash them. Sorry.
> 
> Regards,
> Alan.
> 

Correct for the current driver (kmod-nvidia) and 173 series 
(kmod-nvidia-173xx) legacy driver, but the older kmod-nvidia-96xx legacy 
driver is currently kABI compliant will all current EL5 kernels :)