hi all,

i am using ElRepo to install my nvidia driver as i have heard its the best way to do it rather than running the .run script that nvidia website provides

https://elrepo.org/tiki/nvidia-detect

but when i run "yum install kmod-nvidia" i run into this package conflict

--> Processing Conflict: nvidia-x11-drv-340xx-340.107-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 conflicts xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: nvidia-x11-drv-340xx conflicts with 2:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-384.111-1.el7.x86_64
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

im researching into the error myself but if anyone can help me out i would be much appreciated

cheers,
rob

I bolded two lines above for emphasis only. Yum gave you two suggestions...did you try either of those? And you provide no details about your system. While you did post this in CentOS, what version? And where did you get the advice that this was the best way to do it?? Have you followed up with whoever gave you that advice?

The .run script is pretty simple. You boot to runlevel 3, and (providing you have the kernel source installed), execute the .run script. It builds the module for your kernel, installs it, and modifies your X configuration. Not sure how much easier it can be.

found out the problem -

i removed the package and also as i was doing a "yum install kmod-nvidia" it was installing the rpmfusion version so i made it only look for the elrepo

yum remove -y nvidia-x11-drv-340xx-340.107-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-nvidia

Why did you post the exact same question on the CentOS forums and then post here ?

https://www.centos.org/forums/viewto...7e4698#p284710