Now I did a search for nvidia.ko and found that /lib/modules contains
the following:
2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
2.6.11-1.27_FC3
2.6.13-1.1532_FC4
2.6.14-1.1656_FC4
2.6.9-1.681_FC3
it also showed that nvidia.ko was in 2.6.11-1.27_FC3! Now can i do a
manual removal of all the older /lib/modules2.6.? that area not current
with the current installed kernel
uname -r reports
2.6.14-1.1656_FC4
-or- is there a env variable that points to the correct libary module
that needs to be changed? I have never run into this problem before.
Thanks,
Bob
Bob Hartung wrote:
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.
