Fedora "backports" repo? (Was Re: PostgreSQL 9 for F14?)

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Thu Sep 23 15:57:45 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:34:12 -0400,
  Brandon Lozza <brandon at pwnage.ca> wrote:
> 
> Some people also pointed out another interesting tidbit and that is
> proprietary video drivers. Some of us use them and want to be able to
> use them. We wouldn't be using a rawhide kernel if it won't load the
> modules. I assume users of proprietary kernel drivers would have to
> set it up in f13 with rpmfusion and nvidia-akmod first before
> upgrading to rawhide.

The kmod rpms for rawhide are already provided by rpmfusion. I don't know
how often they do them nor how often new kernel releases just plain
break the proprietary drivers. But it sure likes look at least some of
the time you should be able to use them.


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