akmod for PAE kernels ? Was: How do I change from a regular kernel to a PAE kernel ?

[Linuxguy123]

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 21:01 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 20:27 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > > My laptop has 4GB of RAM. It is currently using only 3 GB of RAM.  I
> > > want to upgrade to 8 GB of RAM.  
> > > 
> > > I am currently using a 32 bit non PAE kernel.  How do I change to using
> > > a PAE kernel ?
> > 
> yum install kernel-PAE  <reboot> ?
> 
> I did this and it installed the lastest kernel's PAE version.  And its
> running too.  
> 
> # uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686.PAE #1 SMP Fri Sep 25
> 04:56:58 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> HOWEVER... when it was booting, it gave a couple errors about not being
> able to find the nvidia driver and it appears not have installed it
> either:
> 
> $ lsmod | grep nvidia
> $ lsmod | grep nv
> $ lsmod | grep vid
> video                  18744  0
> uvcvideo               50572  0
> videodev               29612  1 uvcvideo
> v4l1_compat            12048  2 uvcvideo,videodev
> output                  2476  1 video
> 
> There is no kmod-nvidia for this kernel.  I have been using akmod-nvidia
> for my nvidia drivers.  Does akmod-nvidia not work with PAE kernels or
> do I have do set up something different ?

Looks like I needed to install kernel-PAE-devel. 

I hope this helps someone.