[colug-432] kmod vs akmod nvidia

[Vince Herried]

Any one know how this works?

I removed all the kmod-nvida and installed akmod-nvida.
leaving out a lot of dialog, I find that akmod-nvidia, apparently at boot
time, at least before i get logged in with X runnning, installs kmod-nvidia
( I re-removed kmod-nvidia and see  a grumble that RPMDB was updated
outside yum.)   Then after re-boot kmod-nvidia is re-installed!

I need to do some digging,  where do one send bug reports on such?
The akmod-nvidia didn't install all the reqs for it to  re-build.  After
several attempts to get X going, I find /var/log/messages has grumble of
missing devel, install it and all is well.     akmod-nvidia installed a
bunch of reqs but missed  kernel-PAE-devel.    I didn't even know there was
a different devel for the PAE.

If any one going to do install, my recommendation don't yum erase
kmod-nvidia,  cause it removes a BIG library that akmod is gonna re-install
and seems that akmod-nvidia needs kmod-nvidia.   Almost acts like
akmod-nvidia 'desires' kmod-nvidia but doesn't require?  I suppose if i
really needed to know, i should try boot with no network access.

I must be getting a tiny bit smarter,  this cycle of broken X11 only lasted
couple of hours or so,  much less than previous times.

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Vince
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