On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Paulo Cavalcanti <pro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Brian Long <briandl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> When CentOS 5 was getting long in the tooth, I upgraded my backend to >> Fedora 16 and I regret doing so. I should have stuck with SL 6. I've not >> played with F17 on my workstation since I prefer the enterprise releases. >> >> /Brian/ >> >> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Paulo Cavalcanti <pro...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> after sometime trying to use F17, >>> I know of some nasty problems lurking around: >>> >>> 1) applications using gtk2 may crash (e.g., vlc) >>> 2) libpng 1.5 hide some structures from applications, >>> and the compilation fails (e.,g. povray) >>> 3) module-init-tools is gone (deprecated by kmod), >>> and all kmdls do not install >>> >>> I can stay with F14/rhel6 for a long time or >>> we can try to fix whatever we can. >>> >>> Is anybody really using F17 in ATrpms? >>> >>> > > I just installed F17 on a brand new I7 computer. > I have the old computer (with F14) and the new one side by side, and just > switch > between them in the monitor source (fortunately it has two outputs: a dvi > and a vga). > > Gnome 3 is really awkward, and systemd, well, it is better not to say what > I thought of it.... > kde seems the same to me, and I think it is time to forget about gnome ... > Gnome3 seems as a big iphone to me, but lacking the Apple product > polishing and the > appropriate hardware. Every tweak takes a long time, mainly because the > configuration > tools are not installed by default or simply do not exist ... > > Anyway, I was able to force the installation of the nvidia kmdl and had to > install > pyxf86config-0.3.37-10.fc15.x86_64.rpm from F16, because it is gone on F17. > > Then I blacklisted nouveau in /etc/default/grub and recreated the grub2 > config file. > Well, at least I am using the nvidia driver now and google-earth is at > full power again. > > > To fix the kmod dependency is quite simple. One has only to edit the file /etc/rpm/macros.kmdl and change: Requires: /sbin/depmod, modutils >= 2.4.14\ for Requires: /sbin/depmod, kmod >= 7\ That is it. Rebuilt kmdls will install just fine... -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti DCC - UFRJ
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