kernel source and nVidia drivers - continued

Bob Hartung rwhart at mchsi.com
Mon Jan 16 03:44:21 UTC 2006


to all:
   I have 'yum install kernel-devel'

   /usr/src/kernels contais a directory 2.6.14-1-1644_FC4-i686


   /usr/src/redhat/
     BUILD contains subdirectory kernel-2.6.14
     this contains linux-2.6.14 which contains:
        multiple directories:
               kernel that contains *.c files
               include that contains
                    linux and this contains kernel.h
     RPMS, SOURCES, SPECS, SRPMS are all containe nothing or empty 
subdirectories.

   whenever i run the nVidia package to build the drivers it ALWAYS 
complains that the source is not installed. I have tried the
'--kernel-source-path=' switch with all manner of part or all of the 
above directory structure.  ALWAYS the same.  kernel not installed.

  So my next question is this:  could I be running a i386 kernel and yum 
install kernel-devel installed a i686 kernel?  Would it make a difference?

Should I back out the yum install kernel-devel and install the source 
rpm as per the fedora.redhat.com Release Notes?  If so when I set it up 
do I use the 386, 586, or 686 spec file?

tia,

Bob




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