nvidia kernel module...

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Yes, kernel headers are now stored under /lib/modules/<version>/build/...

You should compile your kernel module against that set of headers.

-derek

"Frank J.Ramsay" <fjr at marsdome.myip.org> writes:

> I just installed RH 7.1 on my game machine, (big improvement from 7.0 btw) 
> Now I'm trying to build the GForce drivers that NVidia produces but when I run
> make I get this error:
> 
> /usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should never use kernel-headers system headers,
> /usr/include/linux/modversions.h:2:2: #error but headers from an appropriate kernel-source
> 
> I looked at the header file and those two #error lines are all it contains, and the module
> appears to be intentionally calling it.  Has this file changed for the 2.4.x kernels?  
> Because on my server (running 2.2.17) modversions.h is a very different file.
> 
> I do remember reading somewhere that RH 7.0 needed kgcc to compile the 
> kernel & kernel modules, but I don't see an RPM for this on the RH 7.1 cds so
> I'm assuming it's not needed any longer.
> 
> 				-fjr
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