F10 question with nvidia card

[Chris Snook]

Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I upgraded to F10 and now I need to get my nvidia card working. I ran
> 
> yum install kmod-nvidia
> 
> which went fine except that I still don't have the gl graphics working.
> 
> 514 > rpm -ql kmod-nvidia
> (contains no files)
> 
> 
> Ok, that's odd. So I then naively tried
> 
> [root at saturn ~]# rpm -e kmod-nvidia
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         kmod-nvidia >= 173.14.12-5.lvn9.1 is needed by (installed) 
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686-173.14.12-5.lvn9.1.i686
>         kmod-nvidia >= 177.82-1.fc10.4 is needed by (installed) 
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686-177.82-1.fc10.4.i686
> [root at saturn ~]#
> 
> 
> Since this is an upgrade, shouldn't the package be installed on top of 
> the old one?
> 
> Anyone know what to do next?
> 
> TIA
> 

kmod-nvidia is a metapackage, to deal with the screwy dependency issues that 
result from having to ship an extra variant of the nvidia module every time 
Nvidia decides to stop supporting another generation of less-than-bleeding-edge 
hardware.  What you're seeing is normal, and your module is already installed. 
Have fun with X configuration.

In other words, blame Nvidia.

-- Chris