kmod-nvidia didn't make it into F12 repos?

[Mario Chacon]

Is it possible to do a workaround to use it??..Nouveau is not working too,
it have an error too(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530520).
How can I use my machine?? .. I cant' use it at all.

Thank you.
salu2...
masch...


On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/11/21 Adam Williamson <adamwill at shaw.ca>:
> > On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 17:10 -0800, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 17 November 2009 04:21:40 pm Chris Nolan wrote:
> >> > A few people (me included) are wondering what has happened to
> >> > kmod-nvidia in F12? Did it get missed somehow or is there a problem
> with
> >> >  it?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> > Chris
> >>
> >> If you read the announcement email, they are in updates-testing because
> some
> >> sort of manual step is required.
> >
> > Some notes on this.
> >
> > So, it seems the manual steps required are a) rebuild the initramfs -
> > I'm assuming the nvidia packages somehow configure things so that
> > nouveau doesn't get pulled into the initramfs any more and b) change
> > SELinux configuration to disable executable stack protection.
> >
> > on b), a clean F12 install has these relevant SELinux settings:
> If you want to be on any help on b) please review the nvidia-settings
> and nvidia-xconfig.
>
> on a) that part isn't planned to be solved before the introduction of
> the new packaging scheme.
> Whereas it could have been safe to regenerate the initrd on install
> (it's not actually as we have seen mkinitrd update that then failed to
> create a valid initrd.img), it's even more probable that a dracut
> plugin get installed whereas it shouldn't have, leading to a failure
> in generation of a valid initramfs.
>
> Now if some want to write a dracut module to handle that propertly,
> experimentation is always open. And I wish I can hear feedback on
> this.
> For the record, what handle the initrd regeneration is to create a
> blacklist-nouveau.conf in /etc/modprobe.d
> The same is also needed for radeon and fglrx.
>
> Nicolas (kwizart)
>
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