kernel-3.19.3-200.fc21.x86_64 fails to boot

[Kevin Cummings]

On 04/03/2015 06:18 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 04/03/2015 03:07 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>> Of course. If you proceed on the assumption that akmod-nvidia
>> was indeed compiled for the kernel at hand.
> 
> It's been my experience that akmod-nvidia doesn't need to be updated for
> every new kernel; I've only received a new version when nVidia releases

No, just for the kernels that break it....  Then you have to wait for
nVidia to fix what's broken, and then for the kmod people to incorporate
the fix, and them for the new akmod which can then build a new (working)
kernel module again.  Been there, done that, went back to regular kmods.

> a new version of the binary blob.  (There's also a package called
> akmods, that does the actual work, with akmod-nvidia providing the
> specifications.)

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