keeping kmod-nvidia and kernel upgrades "in sync"

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 8/11/06, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak <mjc at avtechpulse.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just started using the livna nvidia driver,
> kmod-nvidia-1.0.8762-2.2.6.17_1.2157_FC5 . This is obviously meant for
> use with the 2.6.17_1.2157_FC5 kernel. However, yum is pulling in the
> latest kernel, 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 (and making it the default kernel),
> even though no matching kmod-nvidia is available... isn't yum supposed
> to look after dependencies like this?
>
> How are kernel and kmod-* supposed to be kept in sync? (I'd rather not
> use yum excludes, if I don't have too).

My guess is that livna hasn't caught up with the kernel yet.


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