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Fedora + akmod = WIN!

By matt

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September 17, 2010

Fedora is an awesome Linux distro. Chris just informed me of an awesome feature so I thought I’d blog for everyone else’s benefit and also my own 😉 When installing a kernel module through yum, instead of installing the kmod-<module> package install the akmod-<module> version e.g: sudo yum install kmod-nvidia Becomes sudo yum install akmod-nvidia […]

Fedora 13 upgrade woes, another problem with nvidia.

By matt

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June 1, 2010

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| Computers, IT, Linux

I just upgraded to Fedora 13, all went smoothly.. or so I thought. When it finally became time login to my new system I got a error saying ksmserver wouldn’t start, and my session would then close and throw me back to the login screen. Turning to a console I decided to run ‘ksmserver’ and […]

Fedora upgrade broke Xorg… SOLVED!

By matt

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May 11, 2010

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| Computers, IT, Linux

A few of us here at work are using Fedora 12, two of the guys upgraded Fedora to find X not starting, seemingly a broken nvidia driver. Because they had issues I was careful about updates. But the inevitable happened.. I updated killing my Xorg. I decided I’d do a bit of research into what […]