[PlanetCCRMA] Nvidia driver with the ccrma rt-kernel.

Niels Mayer nielsmayer at gmail.com
Wed Sep 1 12:09:22 PDT 2010


A kernel-compatible Nvidia has to get installed with every kernel
switch. I don't use akmod (not sure of the point or extra complexity)
but whenever a kernel updates on my Nvidia based machine, I have to
update the nvidia driver too. Also, you have to be careful that if a
kernel updates and there's no corresponding nvidia update, you'll boot
into a brick (or at least a no graphics machine); in that case I just
wait a few days unto rpmfusion updates with the corresponding Nvidia
driver.

Heres a typical kernel update sequence -- note the
kmod-nvidia-2.6.32.19-163.fc12.x86_64-195.36.31-1.fc12.3.x86_64 and
kmod-nvidia-195.36.31-1.fc12.3.x86_64
packages from rpmfusion that must match the kernel from fedora.

 Packages Installed:
    kernel-devel-2.6.32.19-163.fc12.x86_64
    kernel-2.6.32.19-163.fc12.x86_64
    1:kmod-nvidia-2.6.32.19-163.fc12.x86_64-195.36.31-1.fc12.3.x86_64

 Packages Updated:
    kernel-headers-2.6.32.19-163.fc12.x86_64
    1:kmod-nvidia-195.36.31-1.fc12.3.x86_64
    kernel-firmware-2.6.32.19-163.fc12.noarch


Niels
http://nielsmayer.com



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