On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 9:10 PM home user via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 10/18/24 4:37 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
[...]
> On 18/10/2024 22:55, home user via users wrote:
>> I do NOT want to be running with nouveau!
I have an old iMac which only has Nvidia and needs the 470xx driver.
Nvidia has always been "high maintenance", and has reached the
point at which I don't have the time to deal with the Nvidia issues.
>>
>> I have not been able to figure out how the rpmfusion nvidia version
numbers relate to the kernel version numbers. So looking in the rpm
fusion web site does not help me. Was I correct to abandon the dnf
upgrade, or should I go ahead with the upgrade?
>>
rpmfusion uses Nvidia's version numbers. The modules have to be built for each
kernel.
Do the upgrade and check to see if the rpmfusion module works. If not, you can boot
the previous kernel which should use your existing nvidia module. If the build fails it
creates logs that should help identify the problem -- usually something in the Nvidia
code conflicts with changes to the kernel.
Nvidia is dropping support for older cards, and few developers have access to old cards, so
it is left to users to report issues and hope someone steps up to provide a fix. As time
goes by, kernel changes will make fixes more complicated and there will be fewer
people in a position to come up with fixes.
[...]
The kernel updates sometimes get ahead of the 470xx updates, or equivalently, the 470xx
updates sometimes lag behind the kernel updates. My question is whether the 470xx version
that I already have is caught up with version 6.11.3 of the kernel that dnf wants to upgrade my
workstation to. I cannot tell from the information in the rpmfusion web site.
The only way to tell is for someone with similar hardware to try the install and, if it
breaks, make a bug report with details from the logs.
George N. White III
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