Hello, I installed suse 9.1 today. Came from Mandrake 10.0 then Fedora core 2 (that sucked) and now I'm trying out Suse 9.1!

Well first thing off, I got the personal version, which I figured out the hard way, had almost no development tools, so I downloaded all the RPMs I needed to get things going, GTK, GCC and so on, Installed them, ran the updates, updated to the new kernel (2.6.5-7.95-smp) and then, I got to the part where I was going to install the ATI drivers for my 9800 PRO, and I looked for the kernel source and there was none, I downloaded the source for the new kernel from a suse mirror (kernel-source-2.6.5-7.95.src.rpm) and then tried to install it with yast, just like every other rpm before.

My problem began when it didn't do anything, it asked for the root password and then shutdown yast2. tried again and gave me the same output. Tried going via console with rpm -i kernel-source-2.6.5-7.95.src.rpm and still nothing. I'm getting desperate with this as I cant seem to get the source code installed and without it I cant my ATI drivers up!

Any help will be apreciated!

Thanks in advance

it's a src.rpm you can't just install it
you have to rpmbuild the src package
then install the rpm it builds for your arch (it looks like U use smp)

yeah, sorry I didn't post back, but I solved the problem later that day!

What caused the problem was that the only .rpm refering to the src code of the new kernel was that one, at least on the mirror I was using! When I checked some other mirrors I found that some have the real source code rpm and not the rpm src rpm ()

Before that I did try to build up the rpm with rpmbuild but it failed when checking the dependencies, said I was missing "kernel-dummy". Couldn't figure what was that about, so I found the "real" source rpm that I wanted from the start!

Thanks for responding axobeauvi!