Fedora, kmod-nvidia and akmod-nvidia

If you have Fedora and an nVidia graphics card, chances are you’ll want to use kmod-nvidia as your graphics driver. It is closed-source, but produced by nVidia themselves and has several advantages over the default open-source drivers that are typically bundled with most distributions – for example, 3D hardware acceleration.

If you have already installed kmod-nvidia – read on, and find out why you should upgrade to akmod-nvidia .

So what’s wrong with kmod-nvidia?

The way it works is simple. For each kernel version, there is a corresponding nVidia kernel module. Keeping the two in sync is a pain, so the packagers at RPMFusion have made a metapackage, simply called kmod-nvidia which tracks the right version of the module for your kernel, e.g.