kernel source and nVidia drivers

[J. K. Cliburn]

On 1/15/06, rwhart at mchsi.com <rwhart at mchsi.com> 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.