kernel source and nVidia drivers - Bigger Question
Bob Hartung
rwhart at mchsi.com
Sun Jan 15 23:36:48 UTC 2006
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 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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