pb building nvidia driver with latest dkms (rhel3u6)

[Olivier Kaloudoff]

Hello list,


    I'm trying to compile the dell-nvidia-7167-5dkms driver with latest
dkms (2.0.11-1), but it fails;

[root at lnx0029563 nvidia]# uname -a
Linux lnx0029563 2.4.21-freevps-1.5-7 #1 SMP Wed Apr 19 07:07:16 EEST 
2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux[root at lnx0029563 nvidia]# dkms build 
-m nvidia -v `uname -r`
 
Error! DKMS tree does not contain: nvidia-2.4.21-freevps-1.5-7
Build cannot continue without the proper tree.


Stracing dkms shows that dkms looks for a directory named 
"/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/2.4.21-freevps-1.5-7/source"
   
stat("/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/2.4.21-freevps-1.5-7/source", 0x7fbfffdd50) = 
-1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)


Why is this directory missing ? Is it dkms fault or maybe bad kernel 
package ?

[root at lnx0029563 nvidia]# ls -l /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/ | grep freevps
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           35 Apr 19 10:57 
kernel-2.4.21-freevps-1.5-7-ia32e -> 1.0-7167/2.4.21-freevps-1.5-7/ia32e


Here is additionnal informations about my system;


[root at lnx0029563 nvidia]# rpm -qa | grep dkms
alsa-driver-1.0.9b-4dkms
dkms-2.0.11-1
dell-nvidia-7167-5dkms

[root at lnx0029563 nvidia]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 6)



Best Regards,


Olivier