kernel source and nVidia drivers - Bigger Question

[J. K. Cliburn]

On 1/15/06, Bob Hartung <rwhart at mchsi.com> wrote:
> 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.

Looks like your machine was upgraded from FC3 to FC4, rather than
cleanly installed from FC3 to FC4.  I have no experience dealing with
that condition -- I always do a clean install (personal preference, I
guess).

Anyway, does the nvidia.ko file you found bear a time stamp that
matches the time you ran the installer?

As for kernel cleanup, you should probably use rpm -e instead of just
blowing away the /lib/modules subdirectories.  rpm -e should remove
all traces of the obsolete kernels you have lying around, not just the
modules.