Nvida Drivers for Precison T3400

[Douglas Kosovic]

Hi Paul,

I'm guessing you don't have kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.19.el5 installed.

/lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.19.el5/build is a symlink to
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.19.el5-x86_64

And using the following on the command-line find out which RPM owns that
dir:

# rpm -qf /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.19.el5-x86_64
kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.19.el5


Cheers,
Doug

Paul Breen wrote:
> Thanks Doug,
> 
> downloaded the dell-nvidia-rhel5-169.12-1dkms.x86_64.rpm
> 
> Installed using the following command;
> 
> rpm -Uvh dell-nvidia-rhel5-169.12-1dkms.x86_64.rpm
> 
> It tried toinstall and then gave me the following two error messages;
> 
> Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.18-53.1.19.el5 cannot be found 
> at /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.19.el5/build or 
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.19.el5/source.
> 
> Error! could not locate nvida.ko for module nvidia in the DKMS tree. You 
> must run a DKMS build for kernel 2.6.18-53.1.19.el5 (x86_64) first.
> 
> now X doesn't even start
> 
> any suggestions?
> 
> Rgds, Paul
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Kosovic" 
> <douglask at itee.uq.edu.au>
> To: "Paul Breen" <bargeass at netvigator.com>
> Cc: <linux-precision at dell.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 4:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Nvida Drivers for Precison T3400
> 
> 
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>>> Nvidia X Server showing I'm using Nvidia driver version 100.14.11
>>>
>>> There must be a more recent set of drivers but when I checked the 
>>> Dell Support site the lastest was dell-nvidia-14.11-dkms.A01.x86_64.rpm
>>>
>>> Anyone know where I can downlaod a more current RPM ? Thanks
>>
>> See email pasted below for details on RHEL5 DKMS for Nvidia's latest 
>> 169.12.
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linux-precision-bounces at dell.com On Behalf Of Rogelio_Noriega
>> Sent: Saturday, 1 March 2008 8:14 AM
>> To: edg at ll.mit.edu; linux-precision at lists.us.dell.com
>> Subject: RE: Nvidia Driver update request
>>
>> All,
>>
>>      Nvidia's 169.12 RHEL5 DKMS enabled driver can be downloaded here
>> http://linux.dell.com/files/nvidia/rhel5/ Please keep in mind this
>> driver is not officially supported.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>