On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Darlene Wallach <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm still on Fedora 13. > > Will akmod-nvidia for kernel 2.6.34.9-69.fc13 be released prior to EOL > of Fedora 13 on 24th June?
Ok we need to adjust your package/version/kernel version associations :) The nvidia driver is contained in xorg-x11-drv-nvidia (and it's companion libs package) The kernel module can be obtained in two different ways (or flavors) kmod-nvidia - which is tied to a specific nvidia and kernel version but does not require kernel-headers and kernel-devel (not to mention other development tools) and akmod-nvidia - The a stands for "auto" AFAIK. This is a package that contains the source for the kernel module and by way of the akmods package will build a kernel module package (kmod-nvidia) on boot if needed. It is only tied to the version of the xorg-x11-drv-nvidia package. So in my case I have: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-275.09.07.x86_64.fc14.rpm installed (it's not available, I built my own so don't look for it in the repos) and the companion package akmod-nvidia-275.09.07... So when I update my kernel (which I also build myself) I don't have to rely on the right kmod-nvidia package being available because akmods will build it from the akmod-nvidia package during booting. Does that help clear things up? So to summarize. As long as you have the right "pair" of packages installed (xorg-x11... and akmod-nvidia...) and their dependencies, then it will build the kmod package for you and install it. Richard
