On 06/20/17 14:29, Dave Pawson wrote: > Thanks Ed, some parts understood (but I ask why!)... Others raise more > questions > > On 19 June 2017 at 18:06, Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote: >> On 06/19/17 20:16, Dave Pawson wrote: >> >> I've done the song and dance previously - I kept getting caught out >> when the akmod-nvidia was a day or two behind kernel updates! >> >> >> I think you are thinking of kmod. > Would you explain the difference please? And what is the sequence > to change to akmod?
Sure.... The kmod-nvidia packages on your system contain the actual kernel modules for the nvidia cards. With 3 kernels installed on my system I see... [egreshko@meimei ~]$ rpm -qa | grep ^kmod-nvidia kmod-nvidia-4.11.4-200.fc25.x86_64-375.66-3.fc25.x86_64 kmod-nvidia-4.11.3-202.fc25.x86_64-375.66-3.fc25.x86_64 kmod-nvidia-4.11.5-200.fc25.x86_64-375.66-3.fc25.x86_64 If you don't have akmod-nvidia installed on your system and you get a kernel update from the fedora repo but the rpmfusion doesn't have the corresponding kmod-nvidia you will have to wait until they do....as you know. But, if you install the akmod-nvidia package with supports your HW you won't have to wait as it will build and install the needed kmod-nvidia when the kernel is updated. akmod-nvidia-375.66-3 supports the latest nvidia hardware but there are also other versions to support earlier HW. My older laptop has akmod-nvidia-340xx-340.102-3 due to the older HW. All you need do is install the appropriate akmod-nvidia package and the required dependencies will be installed. > > >> If you run with akmod it will automatically rebuild the kmods for you so you >> won't be caught. The only "downside" is that now with dnf you have to >> remember that the rebuild process runs after, and silently, the dnf updates >> are completed. If you reboot too quickly the process wouldn't have enough >> time to finish and when your reboot you'll have a blank screen for a few >> minutes while it is rebuilding again....silently. So, if you forget that >> you may be inclined to think you've got a hung system....but you don't. > It's the 'silent' that bugs me and makes me ask WHY :-) > I think it has to do with the difficulty in putting out messages in the asynchronous environment in which the packages are built/installed. However, it is easy to check if all is well by just doing a "tailf" on /var/cache/akmods/akmods.log during or after the kernel update and wait for "success" such as this.... 2017/06/16 08:01:15 akmods: Building and installing nvidia-kmod 2017/06/16 08:01:15 akmods: Building RPM using the command '/sbin/akmodsbuild --target x86_64 --kernels 4.11.5-200.fc25.x86_64 /usr/src/akmods/nvidia-kmod.latest' 2017/06/16 08:01:49 akmods: Installing newly built rpms 2017/06/16 08:01:49 akmods: DNF detected 2017/06/16 08:01:57 akmods: Successful. _______________________________________________ rpmfusion-users mailing list -- rpmfusion-users@lists.rpmfusion.org To unsubscribe send an email to rpmfusion-users-le...@lists.rpmfusion.org
