[SOLVED] installing akmod-nividia on F20 - machine hang after reboot, "Started Builds ..."

[Richard Shaw]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:32 AM, David Shwatrz <dshwatrz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> Thanks for all those who gave an advice.
>
> After running:
> yum -y install  kernel-devel
> and rebooting the machine, the problem disappears.
>
> It seems to me that the akmod-nvidia rpm should require kernel-devel,
> because it is useless without it; so that yum install akmod-nvidia
> will also install kernel-devel. The kernel-devel rpm is not part of
> the default installation of Fedora 20, and I am sure that other people
> encountered this issue.


This is intentional as the akmod driver is really for people who are
running non-standard kernels. If you are running the stock Fedora kernels
then there is not a lot of benefit in running the akmod-... package than
the kmod-... package.

Richard
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