Regarding Dell precesion380 workstation problem

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 7/24/06, nasim alam <nasim_danish1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Sir
>
>
> 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
> 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:
> dell-nVidia-7167-5dkms.src.rpm.
>  as per instruction given for installation of driver we generally installed
> it

You need to install the kernel-source rpm . Since you are running
RHEL-3.4 I would assume that you are not registered with the main RHN
server. You will need to look through the cdroms and see which one
contains

kernel-source-2.4.21-27.EL.i386.rpm

and run 'rpm -Uvh kernel-source-2.4.21-27.EL.i386.rpm'

If you are registered with the RHEL RHN servers then an up2date -i
kernel-source will also do this.


> with following command
>
>
> #rpm -ivh dell-nVidia-7167-5dkms.src.rpm
> # tar zxvf dell-nVidia-7167-multiarch.5.tar.gz
> nstallation
> 1. Log in as the root user
> 2. At a command prompt, type "tar xzvf
> dell-nvidia-xxxx-multiarch-1.tar.gz" to extract the files
> from the compressed archive
> 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
> 4. At a command prompt, type "uname -m"
> 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.
> 6. Start or restart the X Window system for the device driver to take effect
>
> And restart the pc at the booting time it is showing messages
>
> Kernel source for 2.4.21-27 ELsmp not installed . Can not installed this
> module.
>
> And display card is not being installed.
> Please help me steps to short out this problem with command. because we are
> new user and want be treat as user friendly.
>
>
> Second messages are showing after typing this cammand
> #rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECE/existing sec. file
>
> 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.
>
> Error: Bad exist staus from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.40603/build - RPM build error
>
>
>
>
> Plese look this problem and help me with steps and command to short out this
> problem.We will be very thank ful to you..
>
> Thanks
>
> Md. Nasim Alam
>
> Oil India LTd.
> Duliajan
> Assam
> Phone No. 0374-2804255
>
> Email : nasim_intec at yahoo.com
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>            nasim.intec at rediffmail.com
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-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator