<div>Sir </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>We persently purchassed Dell precision380 workstation service no.72R5K1S and Express service tag is 1504017600.It was xp pre-installed.As per our ofice requirment</div> <div>we installed Red hat Enterprise 3 update 4 kernel version 2.4.21-27El.This machine has nVidia quadro nvs 285 desplay card. We downloaded folowing driver for this display card from Dell site as below:</div> <div><STRONG>dell-nVidia-7167-5dkms.src.rpm.</STRONG></div> <div><STRONG> </STRONG>as per instruction given for installation of driver we generally installed it </div> <div>with following command</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>#rpm -ivh <STRONG>dell-nVidia-7167-5dkms.src.rpm</STRONG></div> <div><STRONG>#</STRONG> tar zxvf <STRONG>dell-nVidia-7167-multiarch.5.tar.gz</STRONG></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;
mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">nstallation<BR>1. Log in as the root user<BR>2. At a command prompt, type "tar xzvf dell-nvidia-xxxx-multiarch-1.tar.gz" to extract the files from the compressed archive<BR>3. Download the latest dkms RPM from support.dell.com, or install the one from the archive by typing "rpm -Uvh dkms-2.0.5-1.noarch.rpm". If you receive a message that a newer dkms is installed on your system already, proceed to the next step<BR>4. At a command prompt, type "uname -m"<BR>5. If the output from step 4 is "i686", then at a command prompt type "rpm -Uvh dell-nvidia-xxxx-1dkms.i386.rpm" to install the 32-bit device driver. If the output from step 4 is "x86_64", then at a command prompt type "rpm -Uvh dell-nvidia-xxxx-1dkms.x86_64.rpm" to install the 64-bit device driver. <BR>6. Start or restart the X Window system for the device driver to take effect</SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial;
mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN> </div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">And restart the pc at the booting time it is showing messages </SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN> </div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><STRONG>Kernel source for 2.4.21-27 ELsmp not installed . Can not installed this module.</STRONG></SPAN></div> <div> </div> <div>And display card is not being installed. </div> <div>Please help me
steps to short out this problem with command. because we are new user and want be treat as user friendly.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>Second messages are showing after typing this cammand </div> <div>#rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECE/existing sec. file</div> <div> </div> <div>Error: your kernel source for kernel 2.4.21-27El can not be found at /lib/modules/2.4.21-27EL/build or /lib/modules/2.4.21-27EL/source. you can use the --kernel sourcedir option to tell the DKMS where it is located.</div> <div> </div> <div>Error: Bad exist staus from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.40603/build - RPM build error</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>Plese look this problem and help me with steps and command to short out this problem.We will be very thank ful to you..</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks</div> <div> </div> <div>Md. Nasim Alam</div> <div> </div> <div>Oil India LTd.</div>
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