Re: Fc17 nvidia kmdls?

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:01 PM, O&M Ugarcina <[email protected]> wrote:
>   You just have to be aware of what is and is not available when you want to
> make changes.
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>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> John
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>
> Agree . But I am getting a feeling that the kmdl's for fc17 are failing to
> get built or not making it into the repo . We just got a build of long lived
> nvidia drivers for all distributions . I have a el6 machine and have
> upgraded all nvidia packages incl kmdl . For fc17 all files but the kmdl
> were there . So even on the new build there is no kmdl for fc17 .
>
> Best Regards
>
> Milorad
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Milorad:

I've noticed the same thing and started to build my own kmdls.  If you
look through the list archive, I've been posting with Paulo about how
to build kmdls myself and he gave me a lot of good information in that
series of emails.  Paulo also has an excellent guide here:
http://people.atrpms.net/~pcavalcanti/LCG_kernel_modules.html#user.
The one surprising thing we discovered recently is that you can't
build kmdls under KDE.  You can under Gnome or by remotely connecting
to the computer on which you are building the kmdls.

The process is actually quite simple once you put together the pieces
(and set yum so that it leaves the fakeroot package alone).

George