Re: kernel source and nVidia drivers

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I also made a logical lin between /usr/src/linux and /usr/src/kernels/2.6.14-1.1656_FC4-i686

When I run NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run it seems to start up okay,
builds the driver then gives this error:
  "unable to load kernel module nvidia.ko"

comments also include that the wrong source may be installed - I don't think so since I used yum install kernel-devel -or -
the kernel source is not installed.

Question: after using yum install kernel-devel do i have to do anything to make it useable and visible to the nvidia installer?

Thanks again,

Bob

Bob Hartung wrote:
J.K.
okay I did the 'yum install kernel-devel' and the nVidia installer still complains that I don't have the source files installed.

Bob

J. K. Cliburn wrote:

On 1/15/06, rwhart@xxxxxxxxx <rwhart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,
I have upgraded to kernel-2.6.14-1.1656. Following the FC4 release notes I have installed the src.rpm changed to directory /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and run
the following command:
 rpmbuild -bp --target $(arch) kernel-2.6.spec

 I moved teh /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/2.6.14-1 to /usr/src/kernels

and makde a symbolic link from /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/kernels/2.6.14...

I cd to this directory and cp configs/kernel-2.6.14-1.config to .config

i issued the command make oldconfig , i do not get this but I did it anyway.

when trying to build the nVidia driver, i repeatedly am told that the kernel.h
file is not installed.  I am at an impass.  Any suggestions?



yum install kernel-devel

That'll install the necessary headers so you don't have to rebuild the
kernel each time a new one is released, and nvidia will build its
module successfully against those headers.




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