kernel source and nVidia drivers
Bob Hartung
rwhart at mchsi.com
Sun Jan 15 23:28:50 UTC 2006
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 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.
>>
>
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