Current F15 kernels + proprietary nVidia driver ? kmod, akmod, x11 config.

[Richard Shaw]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:
> On 10/11/2011 06:05 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>> Since the kernel is not dependent on kmod packages then the kernel
>> will get updated regardless of kmod availability. Until the new kernel
>> is installed then the dependency of the kmod is not met, which is why
>> they don't get installed until the 2nd update run.
>
> I have never seen this happen.  If the kmod is available when the
> kernel's updated, the new kmod comes in.  This isn't because of a
> dependency, but because the kmod itself is being updated.

I'm not sure what's different on my system other than having the akmod
package installed at the same time.

Here's one on my system from /var/log/yum.log:

# grep -E "Updated: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6|Installed: kernel-2.6" yum.log
Jan 25 07:32:49 Updated:
1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64-260.19.36-1.fc14.x86_64
Feb 11 14:15:51 Installed: kernel-2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64
Feb 14 10:28:58 Updated:
1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64-260.19.36-1.fc14.1.x86_64
Apr 11 20:10:49 Installed: kernel-2.6.35.12-88.fc14.x86_64
Apr 28 09:15:10 Installed: kernel-2.6.35.12-90.fc14.x86_64
May 01 20:23:56 Updated:
1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.35.12-90.fc14.x86_64-270.41.06-1.fc14.3.x86_64
May 10 13:51:13 Installed: kernel-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64
May 10 17:36:26 Updated:
1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64-260.19.36-1.fc14.4.x86_64
May 13 13:35:27 Installed: kernel-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc14.x86_64
May 13 18:00:39 Updated:
1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64-270.41.06-1.fc14.3.x86_64
May 13 22:47:52 Updated:
1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc14.x86_64-270.41.06-1.fc14.1.x86_64
May 17 08:38:03 Installed: kernel-2.6.38.6-27.fc14.x86_64
May 17 08:41:33 Updated:
1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.6-27.fc14.x86_64-270.41.06-1.fc14.1.x86_64
Jun 07 11:24:16 Installed: kernel-2.6.38.8-31.fc14.x86_64
Jun 08 20:06:38 Updated:
1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.8-31.fc14.x86_64-275.09-1.fc14.1.x86_64
Jul 09 13:53:09 Installed: kernel-2.6.38.8-35.fc14.x86_64
Jul 29 16:12:22 Installed: kernel-2.6.40-3.fc14.x86_64
Aug 01 20:59:38 Installed: kernel-2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64
Aug 01 21:02:50 Updated:
1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64-275.09.07-1.fc15.2.x86_64
Aug 02 09:34:02 Installed: kernel-2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64
Aug 03 20:36:53 Updated: 1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64-280.13-2.fc15.x86_64
Aug 03 20:37:48 Updated:
1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64-275.21-1.fc15.x86_64
Aug 18 08:27:16 Installed: kernel-2.6.40.3-0.fc15.x86_64
Aug 20 07:25:32 Updated:
1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.40.3-0.fc15.x86_64-280.13-2.fc15.1.x86_64
Sep 07 11:35:46 Installed: kernel-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64
Sep 08 11:49:22 Updated:
1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64-280.13-2.fc15.2.x86_64
Oct 06 09:11:17 Installed: kernel-2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64
Oct 10 10:59:40 Updated:
1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64-280.13-2.fc15.3.x86_64

Most of the time the kmod and kernel don't get upgraded on the same
day and even when they do it's at a different time.

Richard