Re: Error installing nvidia-drivers for F17

On 31/05/12 13:32, John Welch wrote:
>

>
> Yeah, I was looking at my F16 systems and didn't have that kmod package.
>   I know I've seen similarly named packages mentioned in conjunction
> with the RPMFusion repo so that's where my confusion came from.  I just
> looked at the one system that I've upgraded to F17 and I have the kmod
> package installed as well.  Looks like a packaging issue with the NVidia
> packages from ATrpms.  I know it is not the best solution, but if you
> are in a bind you could probably manually install the packages using rpm
> with the --nodeps option.  Seems like kmod is providing the same /
> similar functionality as module-init-utils, so hopefully everything
> would load properly.
>
> John
>

It's probably not really relevant here, but ISTR that in CentOS 5 
module-init-tools had to be replaced by an earlier version to get things 
to work.  I don't remember what the problem was, but I think Paulo 
sorted that one out.

John P