[ATrpms-users] Nvidia Legacy

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 01:52:23PM -0800, Fedor Pikus wrote:
> I took the group's advice and upgraded one of my FC4 systems to FC6
> using DVD and then smart. Most of the packages eventually upgraded,
> but few problems remain.
> 
> The worst one is the NVidia drivers. The system has an old card
> supported by Legacy drivers. No problem, ATRpms has nvidia-legacy RPM.
> Which depends on nvidia-graphics7184. Which needs a kmdl package.
> Which does not exist for any of FC6 kernels.

The drivers wouldn't build, but the bug was minor, so they will appear
on the next site update.

> In general, seems like not all repositories caught up with FC6. After
> several packages did not upgrade, I did a search on pbone.net and
> found that acroread, xosview, and alsaplayer exist in various
> repositories which haven't moved to FC6 yet. Seems like there is a
> "timing gap" where some repositories are dropping support for FC4 and
> older and other are not moving beyond FC4 or FC5.

Some packages are also being dropped or are non-open source and
packagers give up on them. :)

I think by now all repos are on FC6.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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