kmod-nvidia for kernel -217 please ?

Joachim Backes joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de
Tue Aug 18 07:04:26 UTC 2009


Linuxguy123 wrote:
> 'yum update' is showing a new kernel is available.  However, those of us
> running non open source video drivers (for various reasons) cannot
> update because the new kmod-nvidia driver isn't built for the new
> kernel.
> 
> Could someone build it and push it out to the repositories ?
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> PS: Thanks for supplying the kmod-nvidia driver.  I used to have to
> build it myself.  I'm glad I don't have to.  Good job.
> 

Why not install akmod-nvidia (rpmfusion-nonfree-updates)? Then you are 
independent from the current kernel (the module will be rebuilt on the 
first boot of a new kernel).

-- 

Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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