Hi,
I’m running Rocky Linux 8 + KDE on my battered HP Workstation. I have an NVidia video card on this machine:
# lspci | grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] (rev a1)
I’m using the proprietary nvidia-x11-drv-470xx
driver from ELRepo:
# rpm -qa | grep nvidia
kmod-nvidia-470xx-470.141.03-1.el8_6.elrepo.x86_64
nvidia-x11-drv-470xx-libs-470.141.03-1.el8_6.elrepo.x86_64
nvidia-detect-515.57-1.el8.x86_64
nvidia-x11-drv-470xx-470.141.03-1.el8_6.elrepo.x86_64
Apparently there’s an upgrade available:
# dnf check-update | grep nvidia
kmod-nvidia-470xx.x86_64 470.141.03-2.el8_7.elrepo elrepo
nvidia-x11-drv-470xx.x86_64 470.141.03-2.el8_7.elrepo elrepo
nvidia-x11-drv-470xx-libs.x86_64 470.141.03-2.el8_7.elrepo elrepo
But an attempt to upgrade this spews out a tsunami of errors that look like this:
# dnf update
Error:
Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package kmod-nvidia-470xx-470.141.03-1.el8_6.elrepo.x86_64
- nothing provides kernel >= 4.18.0-425.3.1.el8 needed by kmod-nvidia-470xx-470.141.03-2.el8_7.elrepo.x86_64
- nothing provides kernel(efi) = 0x66edb5ab needed by kmod-nvidia-470xx-470.141.03-2.el8_7.elrepo.x86_64
- nothing provides kernel(__drm_atomic_helper_crtc_destroy_state) = 0x19d9cfcc needed by kmod-nvidia-470xx-470.141.03-2.el8_7.elrepo.x86_64
- nothing provides kernel(__drm_atomic_helper_crtc_duplicate_state) = 0x0b326feb needed by kmod-nvidia-470xx-470.141.03-2.el8_7.elrepo.x86_64
Any explanation for this specific problem ? A solution ?
Cheers,
Niki