nvidia and redhat kernel source

yowwww · 06-21-2003, 10:14 PM

I am pretty well acquainted with installin nvidia drivers so that is not really the problem; however, in order to get them working with my new kernel (2.4.20-18.9) I guess I need to install the kernel source separately because for some reason, when I try to install them, it tells me it can't find the kernel source on my box which is really weird since I thought it was installed when I installed the newer kernel via RHN.

Anyway, I have the matching kernel source downloaded from RHN and it is sitting in my home directory but it won't install for some reason - comes up with gcc dependencies.

This is weird, this is the error message I get (I am using a previous kernel with nvidia drivers installed right now, but I would like to get the newer one working also.)

Code:

rpm -ivh kernel-source-2.4.20-18.9.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        gcc >= 2.96-98 is needed by kernel-source-2.4.20-18.9

Anyone been thru this or know a solution?

neo77777 · 06-21-2003, 10:20 PM

Do you have gcc installed
rpm -q gcc
?

yowwww · 06-21-2003, 10:26 PM

Wow, I feel like a total idiot! I wonder how far my head was shoved up my a$$, lol. I know I installed all the compilers and development tools when I installed Rh9 so I didn't think that would be it. Is gcc not on the RH 9 cd's? I wonder. Oh well, thanks for waking me up!

I guess I wasn't thinking. Thanks, it installed, now I am off to see if the nvidia drivers will work that kernel now.

Damn, doh!

neo77777 · 06-21-2003, 10:33 PM

It's ok, it seems like there always should be another pair of eyes to overlook what we are missing. At least it is almost always the case with me.
I think your NVIDIA drivers will be installed correctly now.
Good luck.

yowwww · 06-21-2003, 10:36 PM

well, a lot of the same errors came up when I was trying to install them, but they installed anyway, so now I can use my new kernel.

the error was something about not finding the right kernel interface or something to that effect.

Alas, surely not one of my shining moments, but I am going to look into whether gcc is included with rh 9 or not.

Thanks again.