Still no kmod for new nvidia

David dgboles at gmail.com
Tue Jul 20 00:51:29 UTC 2010


On 7/19/2010 7:41 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 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.


Obviously the previous kernel worked correct? Why not use that one?


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  David


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