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

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 11:46 +0100, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:

> > 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.

I'll have a look. Thanks. My first thought was we should introduce an
selinux policy package to change the appropriate settings
(selinux-policy-nvidia ?)

> 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.

That's interesting, cos warren told me dracut probably didn't parse
modprobe.d blacklists. that liar =)

-- 
adamw