FC6 and NVidia (again ;-))

[Matthias Saou]

alan wrote :

> On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Andre Costa wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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 need to symlink autoconf.h to config.h in 
> /usr/src/kernel/<version>/include/linux
> 
> It cannot find the config.h file (which is depreicated), so it thinks you 
> have no source at all.

Nope, not when using the freshrpms.net nvidia-x11-driver package, as
this is already changed inside it.

Matthias

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