Is RPMfusion on strike? [SOLVED -- at least for me]
William Case
billlinux at rogers.com
Tue Aug 25 17:16:41 UTC 2009
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 22:06 +0500, gilpel at altern.org wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 10:00 +0500, gilpel at altern.org wrote:
> >
> > I would clean everything out and start over
>
> $ yum list installed xorg-x11-drv-nvidia*
>
> (...)
>
> Installed Packages
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 185.18.31-1.fc11
> @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 185.18.31-1.fc11
> @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
>
>
> $ yum list installed kmod-nvidia*
>
> Installed Packages
> kmod-nvidia.x86_64 185.18.14-1.fc11.6
> @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.x86_64.x86_64
> 185.18.31-1.fc11
> @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.6-217.2.7.fc11.x86_64.x86_64
> 185.18.14-1.fc11.5
> @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.x86_64.x86_64
> 185.18.14-1.fc11.6
> @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
>
> $ yum list installed akmod-nvidia*
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> Error: No matching Packages to list
>
> So, from this, it is quite clear that I must remove/install
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia* and kmod-nvidia*
>
Make sure that
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 185.18.14-3.fc11
@rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 185.18.14-3.fc11
@rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
are also installed. You can't run without them. I am not sure what
they are dependency of kmod-nvidia or akmod-nvidia. Or, they can be
installed independently.
> I see no reason to install akmod-nvidia, akmods or whatever.
>
akmod-nvidia.x86_64 185.18.14-1.fc11- is something you should want. It
automatically rebuilds the kernel module for nvidia from 185.18.14
packages every time there is a kernel upgrade. Then you don't have to
wait for a new kmod-nvidia release. It has always worked for me and if
you peruse this users list you will see that nvidia driver users swear
by it.
When (if) nvidia updates to a new driver version that works with newer
kernels (say, 185.18.31) akmod-nvidia will be upgraded to that new
version and all your nvidia driver modules will be rebuilt for the new
kernel.
Check to see if akmods is installed; it should be.
]# yum list installed akmods
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
akmods.noarch 0.3.6-3.fc11
@rpmfusion-free-updates
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Regards Bill
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