Sean writes: > All of our desktops with NVIDIA cards are now about as good as boat > anchors under the 3.10.0-693 kernel.
In my case, it was because whenever you update the X libs, some of the X libs the proprietary driver replaced when it was installed got re-replaced with the standard ones from the X rpms. The last batch of updates included a lot of xorg-x11 packages along with that kernel. Re-installing the proprietary nvidia library fixed this. If your problem is with the opensource xorg-x11-nouveau driver though, this wasn't your problem. This happens whenever an X-windows patch comes through in rpm form, and is a feature of using 3rd party binary blob drivers. TUV also changed the kernel source api, causing vmware to fail on its rebuild of the vmnet drivers. Fixed following this recipe here: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2686431#2686431 Note that this post does talk about the build 663 "7.4 beta" kernel, but the one we just got is build 693. Looks like TUV backported their 7.4beta kernel to 7.3 security updates. Not much either SL or CentOS can do about that: both distros simply follow along with security updates. -- Alec Habig University of Minnesota Duluth Dept. of Physics and Astronomy [email protected] http://neutrino.d.umn.edu/~habig/
