<div dir="ltr">kmod-nvidia are the pre-compiled version of the nvidia video kernel modules and are tied to (compiled against) specific kernel versions and then someone uploads them to the yum repos. The "akmod" versions, as you pointed out, will check at boot-time to see if the proper nvidia kernel modules are available, and if they aren't then it will compile the necessary bits against your current kernel-headers. This is advantageous if you like to install the newest kernels available in the fedora repos and someone hasn't yet put up the kmod-nvidia package for the new kernel or if you are into building/using custom kernels to which there will never be a pre-compiled version of kmod-nvidia. <br>
<br>Some more reading on the topic: <a href="http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=227214">http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=227214</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Vince Herried <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Vince@planetvince.com" target="_blank">Vince@planetvince.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p>Any one know how this works?</p>
<p>I removed all the kmod-nvida and installed akmod-nvida.<br>
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!</p>
<p>I need to do some digging, where do one send bug reports on such?<br>
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.</p>
<p>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.<br>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>---<br>
Vince</p>
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