On Wednesday 09 September 2009 17:37:53 John Pilkington wrote:

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> > Thanks for the response John P.  I totally understand that if I
> > upgrade to a new kernel before the kmdl is available then it is my
> > tough luck, so to speak.  However, two things prompted my question.
> > First, all the other NVidia kmdls (as well as a lot of other kmdls for
> > this kernel) showed up in the repo on September 7th, so I was a bit
> > surprised that the 173.xx kmdls weren't there.  Second, and more
> > surprising, is that not only aren't the NVidia 173.xx kmdls in the
> > repo, but all the 173.xx pacakges (regular package, libs package,
> > devel package, etc.) are missing as well.  This is leading me to
> > believe that the 173 series may no longer be made available in the
> > ATrpms repo, even though it is still a relevant driver for those of us
> > with FX5200 (and other "5" series) cards.
> >
> > John
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:07:03PM +0100, John Pilkington wrote:
>  > > Hi Axel:  I don't know how you choose which of the innumerable nvidia
>  > > drivers to support,
>
> Axel's response, the same day:
>
> Actually with nvidia it's "if it still (sanely) builds, support it".
>
> ... but of course circumstances may change.
>
> John P
>
>
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RPMFusion has a kmod (kmdl) for 173.14.20.  Perhaps Axel needs to change from 
173.14.18 to 173.14.20 in order for the build to work?  Not sure if 173.14.18 
even supports 2.6.30 kernels.


-- Harry O.

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