akmod-nvidia-340xx won't build F23 - info

[Robin Laing]

On 04/02/16 21:27, Joseph D. Wagner wrote:
> Works for me too, though I found that it isn't user friendly about which
> RPMS need to be installed.  Here's the list on my machine:
>
> $ rpm -qa kernel* *kmod* *nvidia* | sort
> akmod-nvidia-340xx-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
> akmods-0.5.4-2.fc23.noarch
> kernel-4.3.4-300.fc23.x86_64
> kernel-core-4.3.4-300.fc23.x86_64
> kernel-devel-4.3.4-300.fc23.x86_64
> kernel-headers-4.3.4-300.fc23.x86_64
> kernel-modules-4.3.4-300.fc23.x86_64
> kmod-22-2.fc23.x86_64
> kmod-libs-22-2.fc23.x86_64
> kmod-nvidia-340xx-4.3.4-300.fc23.x86_64-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
> kmodtool-1-23.fc23.noarch
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-kmodsrc-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-libs-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
>
>
> On 02/04/2016 06:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>
>> On 02/05/16 10:04, Robin Laing wrote:
>>> Akmod-nvidia has worked for ages with no issues.  Upgrading to F23 has
>>> not worked.  Removed all nvidia sources and re-installed with no
>>> success.
>> [egreshko at acer nvidia-340xx]$ uname -r
>> 4.3.4-300.fc23.x86_64
>>
>> [egreshko at acer nvidia-340xx]$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia
>> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-libs-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
>> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-kmodsrc-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
>> akmod-nvidia-340xx-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
>> kmod-nvidia-340xx-4.3.4-300.fc23.x86_64-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
>> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
>> kmod-nvidia-340xx-4.3.3-303.fc23.x86_64-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
>> kmod-nvidia-340xx-4.3.3-301.fc23.x86_64-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
>>
>> [egreshko at acer nvidia-340xx]$ rpm -q akmods
>> akmods-0.5.4-2.fc23.noarch
>>
>> [egreshko at acer nvidia-340xx]$ lspci | grep -i nvidia
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G86M [GeForce
>> 8600M GS] (rev a1)
>>
>> Working for me just fine...
>
>

Thanks to Ed for the direct post.

Turned out that the issue for me was the upgrade didn't end cleanly 
somehow.  dnf distro-sync didn't have any issues but when I was trying 
to install akmods, it was the fc22 version and was a different number 
than the info that Ed sent me.

Running dnf list extras showed me that the system was a cross between 
FC22 and FC23.  Some packages it wanted to downgrade to FC22 from 23, 
including rpmusion*.rpm for the repos.

Removing all applications that dnf list wanted to downgrade allowed the 
system to be fully updated (I thought it had) to fc23 packages.

I have akmods working fully now.  Nvidia is working on the machine.  Now 
to install the packages I need to get the machine fully operational again.

Thanks to all that commented and I learned a lesson in troubleshooting. 
  The error about the kernel source (which I have confirmed on 3 
machines) threw me in the wrong direction.  And the problem part of the 
dnf upgrade notes should be followed.  If I had done the dnf list extras 
before, I may have noticed the FCXX numbers being older packages and the 
attempt to downgrade.

Hope this helps someone else.

Robin