NVIDIA kernel module can't be built with dkms - says kernel source is not installed

[Lonni J Friedman]

Make sure that your kernel-devel RPM is the same arch as your kernel.
Alot of people are hitting a bug where they are mixed i586/i686.

On 10/29/06, Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:
> I'm trying the Freshrpms NVIDIA driver package - it installs
> without incident, but, when I reboot, it gets to dkms and says it
> can't build the module because kernel source is not installed,
> but:
> $ rpm -qa | grep kernel
> kernel-headers-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
> kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
> kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
>
> I seem to have seen some references to borked kernel headers in
> the past days on this list, but I can't seem to find specifics,
> or a fix. Is this what I'm running up against?



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