12:49 p.m.
I'm getting a sound card that requires a newer version of the kernel
than F14 provides. (I need 2.6.38)
I was able to build and install a F15 pretty easily and after a bit of
poking around was able to manually make the nvidia-kmod package build
for the F15 kernel by overriding the kernel lists:
rpmbuild --define='kernels $(uname -r)' -bb...
I still don't completely understand how the newest/current kernel
version files interact but I would really like to get an akmod package
built so I don't have to manually roll the kmod package every time I
update the kernel.
What's the secret to that? I tried commenting out the buildforkernels
macro but that didn't seem to do it, presumably since it's still using
the kernel versions in the
"buildsys-build-rpmfusion-kerneldevpkgs-..." package.
BTW, the new 270.41.06 drivers are working well on my GTS450..
Thanks,
Richard
10:30 p.m.
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I'm getting a sound card that requires a newer version of the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 ?
2:27 a.m.
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 5:30 PM, David Timms <dtimms(a)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 I'm getting a sound card that requires a newer version of the kernel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.
Richard
12:24 p.m.
2011/5/16 Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com>:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 5:30 PM, David Timms
<dtimms(a)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 I'm getting a sound card that requires a newer version of the kernel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
1:04 p.m.
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I plan to update the new 270 driver into f14 soon, so you will not
have to use akmod.
I have to have the kernel headers and devel packages anyway for
VirtualBox so I don't mind using the akmod package, plus it builds on
reboot which is nice. I've noticed that I don't get the updated kmod
package until I run yum update a second time.
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.
Not that there's any formal convention but I think "latest" would be
more appropriate, as it's more more frequently used when discussing
technology/software/drivers, etc[1].
Another option that would be more consistent would be to use the same
naming convention as the legacy drivers: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-270xx
I guess the only problem with that approach is that if 270 becomes the
"stable" release then you'd have to obsolete the 270xx packages
because the "latest" would be 280xx...
Anyway, just thinking out loud...
Richard
[1] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/latest
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