Sounds great, thanks for your work!


On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:23:36 +0000
Phil Perry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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.