On 07/09/17 07:17, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Thanks for correcting me on the Centos vs Fedora issue, I made a leap of faith that > I shouldn't have. That being said, if you say RPMFusion is 375.66 then that is the > same one available at ElRepo. Isn't the version available based on graphic card > rather than opSys. No. The version of the nVidia drivers supplied by the repo is purely the choice of those running the repo. They pick up the drivers themselves from nVidia and then simply repackage them in "rpm" format to make installation easier. I went by their website, which is kind of hard to read and a bit outdated. I suppose I really should look in the repo to see what version they are supplying....but frankly it isn't that important to me. > > And I did not know about RPMFusion / akmod support ... I figured updates from > NVidia would be unlikely for RHEL / Centos but was wondering what I would have to > do if I discovered there was one. You may be coming confused as to the purpose of akmod? It has nothing to do with "updated" drivers. The nVidia drivers are in a module which needs to be "inserted" in the running kernel. You can list those modules using the "lsmod" command. All of these modules are built specifically for a particular running kernel. For example, I have 3 kernels installed on my system so you'd find this..... egreshko@meimei ~]$ locate nvidia.ko /usr/lib/modules/4.11.6-201.fc25.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko /usr/lib/modules/4.11.7-200.fc25.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko /usr/lib/modules/4.11.8-200.fc25.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko When the kernel is updated the akmod process with build the nvidia.ko module, package it in a rpm, and install the rpm. -- Fedora Users List - The place to go to speculate endlessly
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