Nvidia cards and Fedora 22 kernel upgrades

[Roderick Johnstone]

On 16/07/15 13:54, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 7:16 AM, Roderick Johnstone <rmj at ast.cam.ac.uk
> <mailto:rmj at ast.cam.ac.uk>> wrote:

>     I didn't see a fix for this in your note about the new akmods
>     package you have in testing or in other recent threads, but I might
>     have overlooked something.
>
>
> I'm hoping that since the new akmods script will detect dnf vs. yum that
> that will fix a lot of the problems people are having.


Thanks. I'll try your new package when it hits the testing repos.


>
>     A dirty workaround for me would be to make the akmods.service file
>     run /usr/sbin/akmods --force as the ExecStart line, but I have seen
>     reports on google that you can't easily pass parameters to the
>     ExecStart command like that.
>
>
> No, options are pretty standard in ExecStart, what you might be thinking
> of are other bash commands. Systemd starts executables directly, not
> within a "shell" so other things you might expect to work on the command
> line could fail but passing options is fine.

Thanks for the explanation. Having re-read the page I found I see that I 
misunderstood what it said.

Roderick