Force manual build from akmod

[Richard Allen]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Galt" <george.galt at gmail.com>
> To: "RPM Fusion users discussion list" <rpmfusion-users at lists.rpmfusion.org>
> Sent: Saturday, 21 September, 2013 4:27:19 PM
> Subject: Force manual build from akmod
> 
> 
> Yum installed the 3.11 kernel on my F19 x86_64 box and normally akmod
> would have built the nvidia driver (319.32-2) for the new kernel,
> but no such luck. Where does the akmod service keep its log files so
> I can look into what went wrong? Also, is it possible to manually
> build the akmod files? I looked at this set of directions
> http://fedorasolved.org/Members/zcat/akmods , but it is outdated
> (and running systemctl restart akmods.service didn't yield any
> output)?

Hello George,

There has been an ABI change in the kernel at version 3.11 affecting all binaries that use it, including the nvidia drivers.
This is a very simple change with a simple fix.

Here is the bugzilla entry.

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2956

The fix is out, you can find it here: 

http://www.forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=294091

This has not been released in the the rpmfusion repos because the buildsystem is currently broken.

[ra at hamburger ~]$ uname -a
Linux hamburger.home.ra.is 3.11.1-200.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Sep 14 15:04:51 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[ra at hamburger ~]$ lsmod | grep -i nvidia
nvidia               9430089  57 
drm                   274480  2 nvidia
i2c_core               34242  3 drm,nvidia,videodev


The fix is working great for me.