Nicolas Chauvet wrote: > 2009/3/19 Stephen Adler <[email protected]>: >> Hi, >> >> I just installed rhel5 and wanted to get the nvidia driver for it (akmod >> version or any version actually) Doing some poking around it don't find it. >> Is it not available and I'm just not doing the right thing to install it? > I'm ready to maintain nvidia there as soon as we have some agreement > on the method to package with kmod/akmod. > > Until then, you may need to build your own akmod-\*. > > For what is specific to the nvidia driver side, I wonder if: > - selinux in rhel will be compliant with the way we package the nvidia driver. > - They are rooms of improvement that are in wip, maybe we will want to > wait for the new packaging schemes of the prop. driver > (rpmfusion-config-display improvements etc). > - knowing which driver version (for a given nvidia serie) is best > suitable for rhel5/centos isn't that easy. > In some case, they is a need to have different components to match; > specially Cg cuda and others tools. > then some hardware may work better with an older version of the driver > whereas on the same hardware but with differents usage, another > version is best suitable. > > So for all theses reasons it may not exist a common answear at this time. > > But we can certainly start with packaging nvidia legacies series, > specially the 71xx serie that currently does not work with Fedora . > (despite 71xx support for newer xorg-xserver wil appear later > according to nvidia). As those legacy series won't change, we may keep > them at the same version until rhel is supported. which is what is > awaited for stability support with rhel > > > Nicolas (kwizart)
Hi Kwizart, Not sure I'm following the reasoning. Given kmod/akmod is accepted for EL, why wouldn't the current packaging scheme work ? Whatever version/serie of the driver work best for someone is still this guy's decision. Some of the needed libraries may or may not be available for EL, and that might restrain the version/serie of the driver that can be built, but that is a well known issue for anyone maintaining a package for EL. And anyway, RHEL5/CentOS5 is shipping xserver 1.4.2 iirc, this is well supported for all nvidia's driver flavours. What am I overlooking ? Back to the first point, what exactly is needed to get the kmod/akmod issue moving for EL, and actually, what is the issue ? what is the different between EL and Fedora, wrt kmod/akmod ? Regards, Xavier
