On 13 February 2012 01:19, jonetsu <jone...@teksavvy.com> wrote: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:38:56 -0700, > Pete Travis <li...@petetravis.com> wrote : > >> yum install akmod-nvidia >> >> The akmod will build the module locally when there is disparity >> between the kmod and kernel versions. You can install them both and >> not think about it again. > > Super! This works very nicely. Installed it, then rebooted and now > back to high resolution. > > Also, this is a principle I'm not too familiar with, this capacity for > certain drivers to rebuild themselves when needed. I think VmWare also > uses that (at last ! ;-). ... If what's at work here with > akmod-nvidia is that. > > Within Fedora, are there any other drivers that works int he same > way ? Could be useful to know. >
Not within Fedora itself, because it's not needed by things which are part of the standard kernel. But RPMFusion provides a few other akmod packages: http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/development/x86_64/os/repoview/letter_a.group.html http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/development/x86_64/os/repoview/letter_a.group.html -- imalone -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
