John Hodrien wrote:> On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, mark wrote: > > >> I've got a user with a legacy NVidia card. I've got kmod-nvidia. Last >> time I did an update, all I did was yum update --disableexcludes. This >> time, it fails, with Error: Package: >> nvidia-x11-drv-304xx-304.135-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 (@elrepo) Requires: >> xorg-x11-server-Xorg <= 1.19.99 Removing: >> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.19.5-5.el7.x86_64 (@base) xorg-x11-server-Xorg >> 1.19.5-5.el7 >> Updated By: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.20.1-5.1.el7.x86_64 (updates) >> xorg-x11-server-Xorg = 1.20.1-5.1.el7 Available: >> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.20.1-3.el7.x86_64 (base) xorg-x11-server-Xorg >> 1.20.1-3.el7 >> Available: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.20.1-5.el7.x86_64 (updates) >> xorg-x11-server-Xorg = 1.20.1-5.el7 >> >> I'd appreciate any help understanding what this is telling me. It >> *looks* >> like it wants to update vidia-x11-drv-304xx-304.135-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 >> with vidia-x11-drv-304xx-304.135-5.el7.elrepo.x86_64 (or maybe 135-6) and >> then it wants to replace the elrepo mods with base or updates. >> >> Is this saying there's no update for the xorg-x11-server-Xorg (I don't >> see one) on elrepo? Does this mean I'll have to go back to the >> proprietary driver? > > You'd think kmod-nvidia-304xx-304.135-6.el7_6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm would put > you into a happy place. Can you double check that you've got elrepo > enabled and functional? >I would have thought so, but yum list nvidia-x11\* --disableexcludes=all gives me Installed Packages nvidia-x11-drv-304xx.x86_64 304.135-1.el7.elrepo @elrepo Available Packages nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64 410.78-2.el7_6.elrepo elrepo nvidia-x11-drv-304xx-32bit.x86_64 304.135-1.el7.elrepo elrepo nvidia-x11-drv-32bit.x86_64 410.78-1.el7_6.elrepo elrepo nvidia-x11-drv-340xx.x86_64 340.107-1.el7.elrepo elrepo nvidia-x11-drv-340xx-32bit.x86_64 340.107-1.el7.elrepo elrepo nvidia-x11-drv-390xx.x86_64 390.87-1.el7_5.elrepo elrepo nvidia-x11-drv-390xx-32bit.x86_64 390.87-1.el7_5.elrepo elrepo nvidia-x11-drv-libs.i686 410.78-2.el7_6.elrepo elrepo nvidia-x11-drv-libs.x86_64 410.78-2.el7_6.elrepo elrepo Also, as I think of it, I saw the same thing a week or so ago, trying to update another system. Is there something missing? mark
On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, mark wrote:> Is there something missing?An updated nvidia-x11-drv-304xx package. Have you queried this with elrepo? Is 304 a dead-end now given it's not had an update since September 2017? jh
John Hodrien wrote:> On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, mark wrote: > >> Is there something missing? > > An updated nvidia-x11-drv-304xx package. Have you queried this with > elrepo? Is 304 a dead-end now given it's not had an update since September > 2017?(Please ignore mark, looking up the release date on the user's video card, beating his head on a desk, then going in to the team leader, and suggesting he consider buying new video cards, given cards that are > 10 years old....) In the meantime, I need to support it. Oh, and I just tried to join the elrepo lists, and it told me my email address was banned. No clue, haven't tried that list for years, emailed the owners.... It starts to look like I need to go to proprietary.... mark
John Hodrien wrote:> On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, mark wrote: > >> Is there something missing?> An updated nvidia-x11-drv-304xx package. Have you queried this with > elrepo? Is 304 a dead-end now given it's not had an update since September > 2017? >Ah, yes, my email address was blocked by elrepo, so I emailed list owners, and that bounced, because "known source of spam", and they don't even give me a link to find out about getting unblocked. <rant> Blocking spam by blocking mailservers IS A 20 year old method that DOESN'T WORK ANY MORE, because most hosting providers host literally millions of domains. With that, no matter how big their staff is, it can't possibly keep up with all the people who create a burner account to send out spam, with the result that tens or hundreds of thousands of domains are blocked. Go ahead, tell me what the hosting providers should do... or is it that everyone should pay for the expensive commercial hosting (when you're not a business site).... No, the method is no good. Nor has it been good for almost 20 years. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned that one of them blocked that way... roadrunner for Chciago... which covered most of the home and SOHO users in all of Chicago, as they'd eaten all the smaller ISPs. </rant> mark