Video Problems for Precision 390

[John Arends]

Sorry to dig this up again, but I have more time to play with this and 
am really hoping to resolve my video issues with with RHEL5.

I'm doing an rpmbuild --rebuild dell-nvidia-rhel5-169.12.x86_64.src.rpm 
so I can run the driver on my 32 bit RHEL5 system.

I'm now running rpmbuild as root instead of using sudo so I have root's 
path, and it gets me a bit further, but now I get this:

Tarball location: 
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/169.12/tarball/nvidia-169.12-kernel2.6.18-8.el5-i686.dkms.tar.gz

DKMS: mktarball Completed.
+ for i in 2.6.18-8.el5 2.6.18-53.el5
+ '[' -d /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.el5 ']'
+ dkms build -m nvidia -v 169.12 -k 2.6.18-53.el5

Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.18-53.el5 cannot be found at
/lib/modules/2.6.18-53.el5/build or /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.el5/source.
You can use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located.
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.32245 (%build)


I'm currently running a newer kernel:

Linux my-machine 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Tue Feb 19 07:18:21 EST 2008 
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

There is no build or source dir in the 2.6.18-53.el5 directory. I tried 
adding both of them as simlinks to the source and build dirs in the 
2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 dir, but that didn't help.

Would I be better off switching to a non-Dell nvidia driver? I really 
need working video.


Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:26:57AM -0500, John Arends wrote:
>> Rogelio_Noriega at Dell.com wrote:
>>> A couple of questions.
>>>
>>> 1. what is the version of the nvidia driver and is it 32 or 64bit?
>> I am running 32 bit RHEL. The nvideo about box says I am running 100.14.19
>>
>>> 2. What error are you seeing when you try to build the driver from
>>> source and do you have the kernel-headers rpm installed?
>> When I try to rebuild the latest src rpm you posted for my 32 bit RHEL 
>> machine, I get this error:
>>
>> + cp dkms.conf /usr/src/nvidia-169.12
>> + dkms add -m nvidia -v 169.12
>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.6431: line 39: dkms: command not found
>> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.6431 (%build)
>>
>> RPM build errors:
>>      Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.6431 (%build)
>>
>> I do have dkms installed. I also have kernel-headers installed.
> 
> It sounds like the environment you're in when installing this does not
> have /usr/sbin in it's PATH.
>