NVIDIA Again

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 14:21 -0800, David Boles wrote:
> McBroom, Robert C wrote:
> > The 2.6.15-1869_FC5 source no longer has the file
> > include/linux/version.h killing the compile with the nvidia installer 8178.
> >  
> >  
> > Robert McBroom
> > 
> 
> I hate when people say things like this.  I got one here.
> 
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.15-1.1869_FC5-i686/include/linux/version.h
> 
> and here
> 
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.15-1.1871_FC5-i686/include/linux/version.h
> 
> Does the Nvidia driver installer look for this exact path? The installer should.

no the installer should only look in /lib/modules/<version> for the
current kernel sources. And it does afaik

Any kernel module build thing that doesn't look there for the current
headers is so terminally broken that you also wouldn't want to run the
rest of the software ;)

> 
> Maybe a symlink to fool it?
> 
> ln -s target [name]
> 
> ln -s /usr/src/kernels/2.6.15-1.1869_FC5-i686   linux

such a link exists, in /lib/modules/<version>/