On 25/01/13 22:48, jdow wrote:
> 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.
>

Firstly, apologies for reviving an old thread...

We have released a utility called nvidia-detect which will detect 
supported NVIDIA graphics cards and determine which driver to use. See here:

http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2013-February/001652.html

You can install it from the elrepo repository with:

yum install nvidia-detect

> In the post processing the test program is run.
>

It is my intention to call nvidia-detect from the %post install script 
and echo a warning to the console should one attempt to install/update 
to a driver version not supported by the detected hardware.

> 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.

Unfortunately due to the way RPM / Yum works, we can't stop you breaking 
your system but we can warn you that you are about to break it and tell 
you how to fix it.