Nvidia cards and Fedora 22 kernel upgrades

[Roderick Johnstone]

On 23/07/15 13:57, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 5:37 AM, Roderick Johnstone <rmj at ast.cam.ac.uk
> <mailto:rmj at ast.cam.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>
>     I tested this and it didn't work. The kmod is installed successfully
>     but sddm does not start.
>
>     Do you know how the kernel module is supposed to get loaded?
>
>
> I'm guessing that the kernel tries at boot but the module doesn't get
> built and installed until after the kernel is loaded so the module just
> isn't there in time.
>
> The more I think about it the more useless the startup script seems to
> be, the shutdown one should catch this situation and then the module
> should be available on reboot... I need to think about this some more.
>
> Do you also have the shutdown service enabled?

No, I don't.

So then I guess it would need to rebuild the kmod for all installed 
kernels, not just the currently running one as it can't know which 
kernel you might want to boot, although the latest would probably be a 
good guess.

Roderick

>
> Thanks,
> Richard