On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote:
> On 01/10/14 21:48, Richard Shaw wrote: > > This is intentional as the akmod driver is really for people who are > running non-standard kernels. If you are running the stock Fedora kernels > then there is not a lot of benefit in running the akmod-... package than > the kmod-... package. > > What are you talking about? > See below... > > I run the stock fedora kernel. But I have nVidia hardware and the nouveau > driver barfs on my hardware. So, I need and I do have installed... > > akmod-nvidia-304xx > akmods > kmod-nvidia-304xx for all the installed kernels > > The benefit is that with akmods installed the kmod packages will get > rebuilt locally. So if the rpmfusion repos don't have the latest kmod > packages you can still update your kernel. > Yes, that is a benefit of the akmods package, but not necessarily the intent, so back to the same answer, we don't require kernel-devel and kernel-headers as part of the akmods package (not the akmod-nvidia) because of the intent of the package. Even though akmods takes care of the heavy lifting, you are still building packages which requires a certain level of knowledge which isn't for everybody. You are expected to know you need the proper kernel development packages (either from Fedora, or a custom kernel build) and tools (gcc, etc.) This explains it pretty well but perhaps it should be expanded a bit to include what you should install: http://rpmfusion.org/Packaging/KernelModules/Akmods Richard
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