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11-02-2008, 04:17 PM
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Installing 2.6.24.5 kernel-headers?
Hi all, I am working on installing Compiz on my system and after weeks of errors upon errors I am now faced with reinstalling my Nvidia driver. (My graphics card is an Nvidia Geforce Go 6200/6400 if it matters.) My distro is BackTrack3 which is based off of Slackware. My problem is that whenever I try to run the Nvidia driver installer, it fails horribly because my distro uses kernel 2.6.21.5 and I was forced to upgraded to 2.6.24.5 for reasons I don't need to get into. However, in that process, the kernel-headers for 2.6.21.5 remain installed. My question, how can I install the kernel-headers for 2.6.24.5 on my system? I don't know much about the kernel and the time I've spent on Google isn't helping me much. Thanks!
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11-02-2008, 04:26 PM
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I'm not a slackware guy, but this post may help. Of course, change the version to what you're looking for.
from: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...57/#post998133
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Find a slackware mirror, find testing/kernel-headers-2.6.7-i386-1.tgz or whatever its called, and simply wget and upgradepkg it.
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11-02-2008, 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Quakeboy02
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I found a .tgz file at http://ftp.isr.ist.utl.pt/pub/MIRROR...4.5-nosmp-sdk/ but when I install it nothing changes. Shouldn't I have a /usr/src/linux-2.6.24.5/ directory? Or am I missing something?
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11-02-2008, 04:59 PM
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Like I said, I'm not a slackware guy. I don't know what should happen on your machine. If you have a folder for the other one, then yes, I would expect one for this one.
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11-02-2008, 05:06 PM
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It looks like that tarball puts everything in /usr/include. I have no idea if that's where it's supposed to go on slackware.
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11-02-2008, 05:32 PM
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Your kernel headers should match the library header files, and not get messed up by
whatever the kernel-du-jour happens to be. It sounds like you've fubared /usr/src
by building/installing a kernel using the wrong method.
Read the README file in your kernel source, and follow this Kernel Rebuild Guide.
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11-02-2008, 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Quakeboy02
Like I said, I'm not a slackware guy. I don't know what should happen on your machine. If you have a folder for the other one, then yes, I would expect one for this one.
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I know, I was just throwing that out there. Thank you for your help. 
I'll keep searching.
Last edited by ESC201; 11-02-2008 at 06:16 PM.
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