On 11/02/2011 11:38 AM, Kevin Martin wrote:
> On 11/02/2011 11:15 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Kevin Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I'm running the rawhide kernel (with debugging) and have been experiencing 
>>> issues with the nouveau video driver, so I decided I
>>> wanted to go back to trying the nVidia driver again.  I've done the 
>>> following to try to get a non-debug kernel set to work with for
>>> compiling:
>> I couldn't find an answer one way or the other, but does the 285
>> series driver support a 3.2 kernel?
>>
>> Richard
>>
> Hmm, there are kmod-nvidia packages for 3.1 kernels so I assume (maybe a 
> stupid assumption) that it would work for 3.2 kernels.  And
> I like using the akmod version since I update to the latest rawhide kernel 
> fairly often and the kmod-nvidia packages are typically
> somewhat behind....however, it is unbelievably annoying that the akmods won't 
> compile when the kernel is setup with all of the
> debugging turned on since it really makes it difficult to actually post any 
> useful kernel information to bugzilla when running a
> non-debug version of the kernel.  Seems like it would make sense to have an 
> akmods-debug that *could* compile with the debug kernels
> and actually help with the debugging of issues....perhaps it's because it's 
> "closed source" from nVidia that we can't get a
> debuggable nVidia akmods package.
>
> Kevin
I also find it interesting that the akmods from rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide is 
still for f16...isn't f16 in beta now, so not
considered rawhide (especially since most, if not all, of the packages in 
fedora-rawhide are now marked f17)?

Kevin

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