Re: Installing NVIDIA Drivers

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On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 13:40, Steve@e-workstation.de wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to install the NVIDIA drivers but I get this error:
> 
>  ERROR: Unable to find the kernel header files for the currently running kernel.
>         Please make sure you have installed the kernel header files for your
>         kernel; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the
>         'kernel-source' rpm installed.  If you know the correct kernel header
>         files are installed, you may specify the kernel include path with the
>         '--kernel-include-path' commandline option.
> 
> I've installed the kernel-source and kernel-headers for 2.4.22. 
> Can anyone help me?
> Thx anyway
> Steve
> 
> 

the nVidia install looks for the headers under the path /usr/src/linux 
but if you used apt-get or dselect to obtain the source or headers, it
installs them as /usr/src/kernel-source.blah.blah.  sometimes as a tar
ball that needs to be extracted as well.  once extracted just rename the
folder linux and you should have no problem.  at least that was my
experience.

Wayne