FC6 and NVidia (again ;-))

[Andre Costa]

Hi Matthias,

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:16:03 +0200
Matthias Saou
<thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net>
wrote:

> 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

Right on the money:

rpm -qa --qf '%{name}\t%{arch}\n' 'kernel*'
kernel-headers  i386
kernel  i586
kernel-devel    i686

Stupid bug... =/

I'll try to fix it the way you suggested. More info on that later.

Thks for the tip,

Andre

-- 
Andre Oliveira da Costa