Re: nvidia and kernel 5.5

2020-02-22 Thread Simon Colston
On 22/02/2020 15:38, Todd Zullinger wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-02-22 20:47, Richard Shaw wrote: Also, as this is a non-free package from RPM Fusion, this discussion would be better to have there. :) But to add to what Samuel said, sometimes there are changes to the kernel that requir

Re: nvidia and kernel 5.5

2020-02-22 Thread Todd Zullinger
Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2020-02-22 20:47, Richard Shaw wrote: >> Also, as this is a non-free package from RPM Fusion, this discussion would >> be better to have there. :) >> >> But to add to what Samuel said, sometimes there are changes to the kernel >> that require updated packages from Nvidia or

Re: nvidia and kernel 5.5

2020-02-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-02-22 20:47, Richard Shaw wrote: > Also, as this is a non-free package from RPM Fusion, this discussion would be > better to have there. :) > > But to add to what Samuel said, sometimes there are changes to the kernel > that require updated packages from Nvidia or we maintainers at RPM Fu

Re: nvidia and kernel 5.5

2020-02-22 Thread Simon Colston
On 22/02/2020 09:53, Samuel Sieb wrote: You're missing the details of what's happening here, you need to look carefully at the versions.  I assume you have the akmod package for the nvidia drivers installed.  Whenever you install a new kernel package, the akmod system rebuilds the nvidia dri

Re: nvidia and kernel 5.5

2020-02-22 Thread Richard Shaw
Also, as this is a non-free package from RPM Fusion, this discussion would be better to have there. :) But to add to what Samuel said, sometimes there are changes to the kernel that require updated packages from Nvidia or we maintainers at RPM Fusion patch it. That can take a few days to a week. U

Re: nvidia and kernel 5.5

2020-02-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/22/20 1:33 AM, Simon Colston wrote: Fedora Workstation 31 I was doing a dnf upgrade (which I aborted), when I got the message: Removing dependent packages:  kmod-nvidia-5.4.18-200.fc31.x86_64  x86_64  3:440.59-1.fc31 @@commandline  30 M I assume this package is dependent on kernel 5

nvidia and kernel 5.5

2020-02-22 Thread Simon Colston
Fedora Workstation 31 I was doing a dnf upgrade (which I aborted), when I got the message: Removing dependent packages: kmod-nvidia-5.4.18-200.fc31.x86_64 x86_64 3:440.59-1.fc31@@commandline 30 M I assume this package is dependent on kernel 5.4 and the dnf upgrade includes kernel 5.5.