kernel source and nVidia drivers - Start Over

Bob Hartung rwhart at mchsi.com
Mon Jan 16 04:48:28 UTC 2006


Note: in earlier posts, yum update kernel-devel downloaded and installed 
1.6.14-14xx rather then 1656.  It took me a long time to figure this out.

Problem:  updated to kernel-2.6.14-1.1656 and can't get nVidia drivers 
compiled.

Downloaded kernel-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4.src.rpm and installed with rpm -Uvh

cd'd to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS

  ran rpmbuild -bp --target $(arch) kernel-2.6.spec

  copied the resulting linux-2.6.14 subdirectory to /usr/src and made a 
sym link 'linux' to /usr/src/linux-2.6.14

  tried to again build the nVidia driver by running:
     NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run

  this again failed saying that /usr/src/linux/include/linux/kernel.h 
was not installed, but it is.  Any ideas?

Thanks for putting up with this!

Bob




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