Still no kmod for new nvidia

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Jul 19 23:41:53 UTC 2010


Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:53:51 -0700,
>   Michael Miles <mmamiga6 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have been waiting to see if a kmod comes available and there seems to 
>> be the wrong one published by RPMfusion.
> 
> Fedora doesn't produce the kmod. You really should be asking about this on
> the RPMfusion mailiing lists.

This is true, but to the extent that some people can't use the recent kernel 
until a working video driver is available, it is a Fedora issue. Updates which 
have security implications really shouldn't have to run in R/L 3 as text only. I 
don't need 3D accelerated anythings to run a few simple xterms and load 
monitoring, but not having X at all is an upgrade stopper. I'm running radeon, 
but more than a few systems which ran well on FC9 need to use VESA modes or even 
a laptop a VNC. The support for ATI and Nvidia hardware only a few years old is 
spotty at best.

Good suggestion, though, he won't get any help here.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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