On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 01/10/14 21:48, Richard Shaw wrote:What are you talking about?
> 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.
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:
Richard
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