Re: kmod-nvidia revisited

2009-08-06 Thread gilpel
>>sam.sharpe wrote: >> >>> There is however, no guarantee that akmod will generate a working >>> module >> >>I'm sure experts on this group aren't afraid the lesser bit by what you >>say here, but I find that rpmfusion does a really good job of making >>sure everything just works. And they do it in

Re: kmod-nvidia revisited

2009-08-06 Thread sam . sharpe+lists . redhat
>sam.sharpe wrote: > >> There is however, no guarantee that akmod will generate a working >> module > >I'm sure experts on this group aren't afraid the lesser bit by what you >say here, but I find that rpmfusion does a really good job of making >sure everything just works. And they do it in a very

Re: kmod-nvidia revisited

2009-08-06 Thread gilpel
sam.sharpe wrote: > There is however, no guarantee that akmod will generate a working > module I'm sure experts on this group aren't afraid the lesser bit by what you say here, but I find that rpmfusion does a really good job of making sure everything just works. And they do it in a very timely m

Re: kmod-nvidia revisited

2009-08-06 Thread sam . sharpe+lists . redhat
gil...@altern.org wrote: >Phil Meyer wrote: >> The akmod tools will rebuild the kernel module(s) for you >> on the boot of the new kernel. > > Really? I thought it involved some extra manip. Here's my last kmod > upgrade: > >Aug 06 14:34:22 Updated: >xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-185.18.31-1.fc11.x86_64

Re: kmod-nvidia revisited

2009-08-06 Thread Phil Meyer
On 08/06/2009 01:11 PM, Michael Hannon wrote: Hi, folks. I just wanted to say a few (more) words about the kmod-nvidia issue that I raised yesterday. First, I apologize for hijacking a previous thread. I was just trying to grab the address of the list. The deeper ramifications didn't occur to

kmod-nvidia revisited

2009-08-06 Thread Michael Hannon
Hi, folks. I just wanted to say a few (more) words about the kmod-nvidia issue that I raised yesterday. First, I apologize for hijacking a previous thread. I was just trying to grab the address of the list. The deeper ramifications didn't occur to me at the time. Second, as several people hav