kernel source and nVidia drivers

[Bob Hartung]

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.
>>
>