nvidia drivers

[John5342]

I noticed that the f10 packages for 177.80 are in the repo. Are there any
plans to release f9 packages for the same?

2008/10/29 Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>

> 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
>
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