nvidia drivers

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 29.10.2008 15:22, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info 
> <mailto:fedora at leemhuis.info>> wrote:
>     On 29.10.2008 10:37, Mark Bradbury wrote:
>         Just changed to rpmfusion the other day and am wondering if there is
>         any news on a new nvidia driver for the latest fedora kernel
>     Uploading right now; accidentally got lost during the last "rebuild
>     all kmods for new Fedora kernel" session.
> Speaking of which, quick question... Are all of the nvidia packages 
> going to be available?

All that are known to work; the 71xx and 96xx legacy drivers afaik won't 
work with the X-Server from F9 and F10, hence it makes no sense to ship 
them in RPM Fusion.

> I currently use the nvidia-x11-drv from freshrpms 
> because it uses dkms. I know livna recently made a akmod package (I'm 
> not sure if it uses dkms or something else?). I installed the rpmfusion 
> repos last night and didn't see either of the two...

akmod-nvidia is available in RPM Fusion. akmod packages work similar to 
dkms packages: the modules are build dynamically.

Or, in more detil: In fact it's a the usual foo-kmod.src.rpm that gets 
compiled by the akmod scripts when needed. That way we have to only 
maintain one rpm package, as precompiled drivers is something a lot a 
lot of people want -- especially those with netbooks, where disk space 
and horse power to build modules is rare.

You can even get the best of both worlds and install both akmod-nvidia 
and kmod-nvidia; if a updated module is available in the repos than 
it'll get downloaded and installed automatically; if not the akmod 
script will build and install the kmod package for you dynamically.

HTH

CU
knurd