FC6 and NVidia (again ;-))

[Matthias Saou]

Andre Costa wrote :

> I just installed FC6. NVidia had been working great with FC5 thks to
> Matthias dkms packages; however, now dkms complains during boot that
> there's no kernel-source for the current kernel. Indeed, there's no
> kernel source:
> 
> rpm -qa kernel\*
> kernel-headers-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
> kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
> kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
> 
> But the point is that there was no kernel-source with my previous FC5
> installation either, and dkms worked just fine (IIRC kernel-devel
> should be enough). I wouldn't like to install kernel-source just for
> this, is it really necessary or am I missing something?

You've probably been bitten by the installer bug where you get an i586
kernel installed instead of the correct i686 :-(

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941

To check : rpm -qa --qf '%{name}\t%{arch}\n' 'kernel*'

The solution is to back up your grub.conf, remove the i586 kernel,
install the i686 one and restore your grub.conf.

Matthias

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