How to make nvidia-kmod source package build an akmod package

Nicolas Chauvet kwizart at gmail.com
Tue May 17 14:24:12 CEST 2011


2011/5/16 Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 5:30 PM, David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> On 15/05/11 22:49, Richard Shaw wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm getting a sound card that requires a newer version of the kernel
>>> than F14 provides. (I need 2.6.38)
>>
>> While not answering your question, Fedora 15 is up to final release
>> candidate RC3. The RC2 has worked fine for me all weekend. Maybe you would
>> like to install the whole thing ?
>
> I probably will upgrade at some point, but that would be the easy way
> out! Even though it's frustrating, I do enjoy digging into these
> things and see if I can figure it out, unfortunately I've hit a wall
> on this one.

I plan to update the new 270 driver into f14 soon, so you will not
have to use akmod.
I still wonder to introduce it as another branch (xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-newest).
But the improvement of the 270 worth for f14 so it might be better to
"cut" the branch for a later version.

Nicolas


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