On 07/14/2010 04:14 AM, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Michael Miles<mmamiga6@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> On 07/13/2010 06:06 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: >>> >>>> --- On Tue, 7/13/10, Michael Miles<mmamiga6@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Fedora 12 x86_64 >>>>> >>>>> I did look this time and it seems the gods that have >>>>> control did not >>>>> give a kmod for the new Nvidia driver 195.36.31 for the new >>>>> kernel >>>>> 2.6.32.16-141. >>>>> It has a kmod there for the old kernel 2.6.32.14-127 >>>>> >>>>> The metapackage is there to track in new kmod but if there >>>>> is no kmod >>>>> there how can it track in? >>>>> >>>>> Anyway I hope nobody just pressed "update" without >>>>> checking >>>>> >>>>> >>>> That's why I update manually. No auto-update for me. I don't even use the >>>> > -y switch with yum, so I can still opt out of the update after I see the > download list. > >>>> As far as the new kmod, wait a few days, then check again. The longest I >>>> > had to wait one time (with F9) was a week, but most times it was a day or two. > However, I don't have to wait anymore: F12's nouveau works just fine with my > old GeForce 6600 card. > >>>> B >>>> >>>> >>> It just seems odd that this would be overlooked as to someone who is >>> newer to Linux than myself could find themselves in trouble if they just >>> updated because the system says there are updates. >>> >> It is not "overlooked" by the Fedora package builders - remember that >> the Nvidia drivers are built by rpmfusion and not in the Fedora update >> system. So they are on a "third party" repo and the guys at rpmfusion >> will take some time to build the nvidia stuff for a new kernel once it >> is released. As a previous poster mentioned - just wait a few days and >> try again. In the meantime it is quite easy to boot back to the >> previous kernel where you had the nvidia stuff in place - then when >> the new kmod is available and installed then boot into the new kernel >> with the new kmod...... >> > On my system I use "akmods"& "akmods-nvidia" The way it works for me is that > if necessary "akmods" rebuilds the nVidia kernel module when I reboot into a new > kernel. Some people have no luck with the "akmods" method. For me, it has > always worked perfectly. > > This is on Fedora 13. > > Steven P. Ulrick > I fully understand the obligations of Fedora and RPMFusion and I do understand that it is easy to fall back if thing don't work like they are supposed to but to a person who just loaded Fedora for the first time might be really baffled when they do an update and find the system will not boot up. I just think the updates should be held back until all the required software is present. Michael -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
