[PlanetCCRMA] FC6 kernel-rt-headers

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Fri Mar 9 12:33:02 2007


On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 20:10 +0100, Louis van Dompselaar wrote:
> > Have you tried to install the package kernel-rt-devel ? I just did
> > some driver compilation using the rt kernel and that package for the
> > headers.
> 
> Yes, I have that one.  But the driver barfs at a missing linux/config.h
> which I think is in the headers package.

I think there's no longer a config.h file in the newer kernels. 

I vagely remember reading about this somewhere, just try commenting out
the line that tries to include the config.h file. 

-- Fernando

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Subject: Re: FC6 and NVidia (again ;-))
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:55:11 +0100

alan wrote :

> On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Andre Costa wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just installed FC6. NVidia had been working great with FC5 thks to
> > Matthias dkms packages; however, now dkms complains during boot that
> > there's no kernel-source for the current kernel. Indeed, there's no
> > kernel source:
> >
> > rpm -qa kernel\*
> > kernel-headers-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
> > kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
> > kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
> >
> > But the point is that there was no kernel-source with my previous FC5
> > installation either, and dkms worked just fine (IIRC kernel-devel
> > should be enough). I wouldn't like to install kernel-source just for
> > this, is it really necessary or am I missing something?
> 
> You need to symlink autoconf.h to config.h in 
> /usr/src/kernel/<version>/include/linux
> 
> It cannot find the config.h file (which is depreicated), so it thinks you 
> have no source at all.

Nope, not when using the freshrpms.net nvidia-x11-driver package, as
this is already changed inside it.

Matthias