startx fails with new kernel

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Wednesday 15 February 2012 12:54:30 Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 02/15/2012 12:38 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > (b) do a "yum install akmod-nvidia".
> 
> Back when I installed akmod-nvidia, it needed either kernel-devel or
> kernel-headers, if not both.  (It's been several years, so my memory's a
> tad fuzzy.)  However, for whatever reason, it didn't list them as
> dependencies, which meant that you just had to know about them to get it
> working right.  Is that still true, or has that been corrected?

I don't know, but I assume yum will pull in any and all dependencies required 
to make it work, including the kernel header packages and the development 
toolchain for compilation.

On all machines where I had akmod-nvidia installed, I usually also had all 
that other stuff already installed beforehand, so I am not sure if akmod would 
drag it in if it weren't already there.

But even if it doesn't work automatically, the OP can always do it like this:

yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum install akmod-nvidia

That would probably cover all cases. :-) Also, IIRC, the OP had already 
installed the nVidia's .run package which also needs all that stuff, so it's 
likely he already has it all installed.

Best, :-)
Marko