I'm installing NVidia drivers for my sound because FC5 defualt drivers make a whining noise through my speakers. my speakers (sound) was ok and well :-( when I go to install the drivers I get a kernel.h file not find so I point i to two directories

1. /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.16/linux-2.6.16.x86_64

then i pointed it to

2. /usr/include/linux this is where kernel.h is.

do i have to chmod the file so it will relize where the kernel.h is? or i'm i going crazy ; ; please help

You need to install the kernel-devel package, not the kernel source. You can use the kernel source, but then you actually have to build the kernel.

Check that you have matching kernel and kernel devel packages with (this is an example from an FC4 system):

# rpm -qa | grep "kernel"
kernel-2.6.16-1.2108_FC4
kernel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4
kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2108_FC4
kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4

If you don't have the kernel-devel package installed:

yum -y install kernel-devel

Also, the current 8xxx drivers are causing problems on some hardware. If you experience problems after an apparently successful install you can visit the nVidia forum. In particular, there's a sticky howto for FC5.

I got the same kernel devel package as my kernel as my kernel source. Here is my output

[root@localhost shaun]# rpm -qa | grep "kernel"
kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5-2.1.26-0.rr.10.5
kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5
kernel-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5

umm to let you know I use

sh ./<nvidia package> --kernel-source-path /usr/include/linux to do the path and it's not working ; ;

The path to the headers is in the kernel-devel package:

rpm -ql kernel-devel | head -n1

ok i checked it and nvidia drivers are still giving me a problem with compiling kernel module with kernel source is wrong because source doesn't match kernel lol oh man nvidia is nuts