-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 June 2002 11:03 pm, Graeme Robinson wrote: > It basically says that 7.3 users should update the kernel and the > kernel source to the latest before trying to compile the nvidia > binaries from source. > > Is this correct? Certainly the errors I'm getting seem to indicate I > need the source files installed but I've never updated my kernel before > and although I've thoroughly gone through the HOWTO it's not trivial > and I thought I'd check here first that I was doing the right thing. > > Also as I have no gui I'm planning to manually update the kernel and > sources from the command line. If you've registered for Red Hat network, updating both should be trivial. You'll need to check the configuration for up2date, as by default the kernel updates are ignored. 'up2date --configure --nox' should do the trick. Once properly configured, run 'up2date -u kernel kernel-source' Or, grab the updated rpms, and rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.18-5.?.rpm (Where ? is your arch) rpm -Uvh kernel-source-2.4.18-5.i386.rpm NOTE: You do not want to use the -U flag to upgrade the kernel. Using the - -i flag installs the new kernel alongside your current kernel, leaving a fail safe kernel to fall back on. The kernel rpm will add the new kernel to grub if you are using that as your boot loader. If you are using lilo, I believe you have to add the new kernel to /etc/lilo.conf, and then run 'lilo -v' - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.2 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj0SnAoACgkQn/07WoAb/SsVlwCfT6matJmoT4aV3msYk12khahm g+0An0KSrVL1MgjwJ6LBFUIAyzxnLMy0 =kx3M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
