On 10/22/05, rwhart@xxxxxxxxx <rwhart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > I need to compile the module for my nVidia dualhead. I have tried to rpm -ivh > kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.src.rpm repeatedly. It reports no errors. > > However, then I do rpm -qa | grep kernel* and the source is not listed. Also > there is no kernels subdirectory in /usr/src > > I have performed a rpm --rebuildb. Any other ideas? > > Thanks, > > Bob If you just want to compile the nvidia module, then all you need are the kernel headers. To get those, you need to install the kernel-devel rpm, not the kernel src.rpm. Also, I highly suggest that you update your system as that is a rather old kernel. Note that doing an rpm -ivh on a src.rpm is completely different from doing it on a normal rpm. If you want to whole kernel source code (which you do not need for the above) you must perform more steps to get that from the src.rpm. Please note that all of this has been documented in the release notes and many times in the list archives. Well, at least the part about getting the whole kernel source is in the release notes, it looks like kernel-devel is not clearly mentioned. Command to update system: yum update Command to install kernel-devel: yum install kernel-devel Jonathan
