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


-- 
Regards Bill
Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3
Evo.2.26.3, Emacs 23.1.1




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