Is RPMfusion on strike?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 10:33 -0400, William Case wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 10:17 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > Hi;
> > 
> > Additional info.
> > 
> > On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 10:10 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > > Hi;
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 09:22 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 06:28 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 03:06 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > 
> > > /var/log/messages warns:
> > > 
> > > NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 185.18.31, but
> > > NVRM: this kernel module has the version 185.18.14.  Please
> > > NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
> > > NVRM: components have the same version.

This appears to be likely to cause a problem.  The kernel module is
likely to be the one from RPMfusion, but the client is from some other
source (nVidia directly, maybe?).  It's not at all surprising that the
version mismatch would cause a failure.

> > > 
> > > But for 2.8 ]# akmods --force --kernels 2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.x86_64
> > > Checking kmods exist for 2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.x86_64      [  OK  ]
> > > 
> > > and for 2.7;
> > > ]# akmods --force --kernels 2.6.29.6-217.2.7.fc11.x86_64
> > > Could not find files needed to compile modules for
> > > 2.6.29.6-217.2.7.fc11.x86_64

I think this probably means that you don't have the kernel-devel RPM for
that kernel.

> > > 
> > ]# rpm -qa akmod-nvidia
> > akmod-nvidia-185.18.14-1.fc11.x86_64
> > 
> > 
> I am now running on the 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.x86_64 kernel which is
> using the nvidia driver. According to the nvidia X server Settings gui
> the NVIDIA Driver Version: is 185.18.31
> 
> Apparently a latter version than the more recent 2.7 and 2.8 kernels
> require ??

If you got that from RPMfusion, it's from the
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing repo.  I haven't tried that yet, but
the akmod-nvidia-185.18.14-1.fc11.x86_64 one is the one that worked for
me.  If you didn't get it from RPMfusion, you might want to remove all
traces of it from wherever it came from and start from scratch with
akmod-nvidia.

> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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