Kernel Upgrade Woes

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Antonio Olivares wrote:

>
>
> --- Nathaniel Hall <nathaniel.d.hall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Last week I attempted to update my system with the
>> newest kernel and
>> software updates for Core 4.  My usual routine is to
>> do a minimum
>> install + Development Tools.  Once I have the system
>> updated I will do a
>> yum install kdebase to install KDE and X and a yum
>> install kernel-devel
>> to make sure the kernel stuff NVidia needs is there.
>>  Lastly, I download
>> and install the NVidia driver.
>>
>> This time, that did not work.  It tells me that it
>> failed to compile the
>> module.  I forget the exact errors that are in the
>> log file, but it is
>> the same no matter what.  Has anybody else had the
>> same problems when
>> trying to compile the module for the 2.6.16-1.2069
>> kernel?
>>
> It ( Nvidia Installer ) looks for the kernel source,
> and does not find it, it bails out.  The kernel-devel
> package is not sufficient to install nvidia binary
> driver.  It has happened to me also.  Nvidia driver
> worked with FC4 2.6.15 kernel, but with
> 2.6.16-1.2069_FC4 it does not.  It is ok in my case I
> can live without nvidia driver.

There are nvidia RPMs at rpm.livna.org.  Highly recommended.  And they 
install with yum.

-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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