On 1/15/06, Bob Hartung <rwhart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Note: in earlier posts, yum update kernel-devel downloaded and installed > 1.6.14-14xx rather then 1656. It took me a long time to figure this out. > > Problem: updated to kernel-2.6.14-1.1656 and can't get nVidia drivers > compiled. > > Downloaded kernel-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4.src.rpm and installed with rpm -Uvh > > cd'd to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS > > ran rpmbuild -bp --target $(arch) kernel-2.6.spec > > copied the resulting linux-2.6.14 subdirectory to /usr/src and made a > sym link 'linux' to /usr/src/linux-2.6.14 > > tried to again build the nVidia driver by running: > NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run > > this again failed saying that /usr/src/linux/include/linux/kernel.h > was not installed, but it is. Any ideas? > > Thanks for putting up with this! > > Bob > Why do you feel compelled to compile the Nvidia driver. Use the packages from LIVNA, http://rpm.livna.org/ . Enable the repo for yum and be done.
