Re: FC6 and NVidia (again ;-))

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.

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