dkms module for the nvidia driver failing on new kernel

[Msquared]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:00:18AM -0400, Claude Jones wrote:

> I'm at the machine and just rebooted - it said
> "Bad exit status: 10"
> failed to build module
> 
> any insights on how to troubleshoot this gratefully accepted - looked
> through various logs but couldn't find any references to 'dkms' 

Make sure you have the latest kernel-devel package installed.

If that fails, you could try to build the module yourself.  Unfortunately
if I can't recall how to do this, and the machine I was testing it with
was blown away when I gave up trying to make it work, but Google may help.
Any links Google finds to the Dell website are probably a good start,
since Dell started the project originally.

(Don't worry: I gave up trying to build the nvidia driver because of an
issue with the Xen kernel, not with an issue with the normal kernel - you
should have half a chance of working it out once you work out how to get
started.)

Regards, Msquared...