Re: akmod isn't reliable

2014-01-03 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 02 January 2014, Richard Shaw sent: It's really designed for people who are running modified/custom kernels That's news to me. Never seen that mentioned before. And I can't remember how many years ago I started using akmods, possibly Fedora 11, with the default

Re: akmod isn't reliable

2014-01-03 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 21:48:32 + Powell, Michael michael_pow...@mentor.com wrote: I guess this is more of a general question, but sometimes after updating the kernel or nvidia drivers an akmod isn't regenerated and

Re: akmod isn't reliable

2014-01-03 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 6:09 AM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Allegedly, on or about 02 January 2014, Richard Shaw sent: It's really designed for people who are running modified/custom kernels That's news to me. Never seen that mentioned before. And I can't remember how many

Re: akmod isn't reliable

2014-01-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/03/14 21:46, Richard Shaw wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com mailto:vvma...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 21:48:32 + Powell, Michael michael_pow...@mentor.com mailto:michael_pow...@mentor.com wrote: I guess this is more

RE: akmod isn't reliable

2014-01-03 Thread Powell, Michael
I think it is reliable, you just need to wait it out. The rebuilding of akmod is being done for a given kernel while that kernel is running, so when you update the kernel, the akmod doesn't get built until you boot into it. And when you boot into it, systemd will at some point try to activate

Re: akmod isn't reliable

2014-01-03 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/03/2014 12:00 PM, Powell, Michael wrote: The system boot screen did indicate it was initiating / building akmods, but I may not have let it sit long enough. When I manually build the akmod it doesn't take longer than 2m and I'm almost certain I've let it sit longer at boot. If it

akmod isn't reliable

2014-01-02 Thread Powell, Michael
I guess this is more of a general question, but sometimes after updating the kernel or nvidia drivers an akmod isn't regenerated and my system will begin to boot, fedora logo will show, but eventually it will dump to the systemd log of services being started and just sit there. I have all the

Re: akmod isn't reliable

2014-01-02 Thread Richard Shaw
Wrong list, this should be discussed on the RPM Fusion mailing list. Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

RE: akmod isn't reliable

2014-01-02 Thread Powell, Michael
Wrong list, this should be discussed on the RPM Fusion mailing list. Richard Hmm... how so? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: akmod isn't reliable

2014-01-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/03/14 06:45, Powell, Michael wrote: Wrong list, this should be discussed on the RPM Fusion mailing list. Richard Hmm... how so? [egreshko@meimei ~]$ yum info akmods Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit Installed Packages Name: akmods Arch: noarch Version :

Re: akmod isn't reliable

2014-01-02 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Powell, Michael michael_pow...@mentor.comwrote: Wrong list, this should be discussed on the RPM Fusion mailing list. Richard Hmm... how so? At this risk of sounding a bit harsh... If you don't know where your software is coming from, don't use it. If you

RE: akmod isn't reliable

2014-01-02 Thread Powell, Michael
At this risk of sounding a bit harsh... If you don't know where your software is coming from, don't use it. If you don't understand that you had to install the RPM Fusion repositories to get akmods, you probably shouldn't be using it. It's really designed for people who are running

Re: akmod isn't reliable

2014-01-02 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 21:48:32 + Powell, Michael michael_pow...@mentor.com wrote: I guess this is more of a general question, but sometimes after updating the kernel or nvidia drivers an akmod isn't regenerated and my system will begin to boot, fedora logo will show, but eventually it will