On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 19:41 -0600, Bob Hartung wrote:
> Alright now, I have made progress.
>
> uname --all reports:
>
> Linux minitwr 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 #1 Thu Jan 5 22:14:13 EST 2006 i686
> athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>
> This tells me that I have a i386 kernel installed. right?
>
No. You have the i686 kernel on i386 architecture just like I do.
[jeff@eagle ~]$ uname -a
Linux eagle 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 #1 Thu Jan 5 22:13:22 EST 2006 i686 athlon
i386 GNU/Linux
I do see a difference in the timestamp on the kernel though (which might
be due to clock differences??).
> rpm -qa | grep kernel reports:
> kernel-doc-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4
> kernel-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4
> kernel-devel-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4
>
> Now I now that the kernel-headers are for i686. As the error I get
> after running the nVidia installer is that I have the wrong kernel
> source installed, i can only surmise that the difference is between i386
> and i686. Right?
>
> So now, how can i force yum to upgrade/install the current i686 kernel
> to replace the i386 kernel that I am currently running?
>
You have the proper kernel per your output above.
It may be that the kernel-devel package is not properly installed.
Try "yum erase kernel-devel-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4"
then "yum install kernel-devel"
Also make certain that the installer you got from nvidia is the correct
one for Linux. The package I downloaded from them and worked for me was:
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run
If that does not resolve it then try rebooting to an older kernel,
remove the 1656 kernel (with a command similar to what was given for the
kernel-devel package), and reinstall the new kernel as well.
Note that yum works from the command line so you do not _have_ to have
the video driver working to do the erase and install commands.
> If you think I am completely wrong - say so! I do want to keep up on
> this as I will eventually better understand what I did wrong and
> therfore avoid repeating it and maybe be able to help someone else.
>
> by the by, I am not a computer scientist, but a physician and i am glad
> that I am a hell of a lot handier with an angiograhic catheter and a CT
> scanner or MRI than I am proving to be with the linux kernel, yum and
> all the repositories that i am slowly finding out about.
>
> Thanks again for putting up with this drivel.
>
We all have to learn new things. Don't be embarrassed at asking
questions.
> Bob Hartung
>
