What happened kernel-source?
Arjan van de Ven
arjanv at redhat.com
Sun Jun 27 11:33:19 UTC 2004
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:31:45AM -0400, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> NVIDIA suggests that kernel-source is indeed used.
>
> Here is the error directly from the nvidia installer:
> ===========================================================================
> ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko'. This is most
> likely because the kernel module was
> built using the wrong kernel source files. Please make sure
> you have installed the kernel source
> files for your kernel; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example,
> be sure you have the 'kernel-source'
> rpm installed. If you know the correct kernel source files are
> installed, you may specify the
> kernel source path with the '--kernel-source-path' commandline
> option
> ==============================================================================
--kernel-source-path should be /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build always...
Their instructions seem to still be based on 2.4 kernel rpms not on the FC2
2.6 kernel rpms...
>
> What is the kernel-sourcecode package used for?
for building your own custom kernel if you want a different .config file
than we use..
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