nvidia kernel modules and drivers for F20

[Roderick Johnstone]

Thats interesting, because I'm not seeing any *nvidia-340xx* packages in 
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates now.

I've checked with yum (but sometimes I'm hit with mirrors being out of 
date) and also by looking at: 
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/20/x86_64/repoview/index.html

Roderick

On 03/03/15 14:00, Vic at ricker.us Ricker wrote:
> I don't think you need the updates - testing repo anymore. I just
> installed the 340xx driver the other day, on a box with a GeForce 8600,
> and it worked fine.
>
>
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Roderick Johnstone <rmj at ast.cam.ac.uk>
> Date:03/02/2015 6:12 AM (GMT-05:00)
> To: rpmfusion-users at lists.rpmfusion.org
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: nvidia kernel modules and drivers for F20
>
> Mike/Nicolas
>
> Thanks for your suggestions.
>
> I was able to resolve this with:
>
> For systems with older grahics cards:
> yum erase xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
> yum --enablerepo=rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing install
> akmod-nvidia-340xx
> akmods --kernel 3.18.7-100.fc20.x86_64
>
> For systems with newer graphics cards:
> yum erase xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx
> akmods --kernel 3.18.7-100.fc20.x86_64
>
> I just run the akmods commands by hand to be sure that the kmod will be
> built ok before rebooting.
>
> Roderick
>
> On 25/02/15 20:00, Nicolas Viéville wrote:
>  >> I ran into this a couple of weeks ago. I think that something was broken
>  >> in the repos for a short period.
>  >
>  > Also I ;)
>  >
>  > In order to avoid the uninstall of a lot of packages due to
>  > dependencies, and to proceed on 20 machines, I preferred to use a less
>  > elegant way (use it at your own risk - be careful some one line commands
>  > are split on multiple lines in this message and you may have to adapt
>  > the name of the packages to yours):
>  >
>  > rpm -e --nodeps xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx.x86_64 \
>  > xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-libs.i686 \
>  > xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-libs.x86_64
>  >
>  > yum -y install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 \
>  > xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64
>  >
>  > akmods --force
>  >
>  > rpm -e kmod-nvidia-340xx-3.17.8-200.fc20.x86_64-340.65-3.fc20.1.x86_64
>  >
>  > akmods --kernel 3.17.8-200.fc20.x86_64
>  >
>  > then to be sure:
>  >
>  > yum -y upgrade
>  >
>  > and
>  >
>  > reboot
>  >
>  > Hope this will help.
>  >
>  > Cordially,
>  >
>  >