I had a RH7.3 system. I upgraded via Centos5.3 CDs I upgraded this system further via Yum.
Current problems: 1: nvidia GF6800 Xtreme video card has no kernel module, so I have command-line only. 2: Building a kernel module requires downloading (at least parts) of the kernel; there is no clear label "yum install kernel-module-build-enabler"
You need at least kernel-headers; not sure if you also need kernel-devel. And yeah, it is kernel specific. <snip>
What's the system builder to do?
Once you've got those two packages installed, any time you upgrade, you should get them. Then just rebuild the module.
d/l from NVIDIA their linux driver package. I've got an older video card (1100, I think), so I *have* to use NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.20-pkg2.run, since no newer package supports it. A newer one, that might support it, is NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.13-pkg1.run. There *is* an rpm in the repository, but I don't know if it supports your card.
For the Nvidia packages, once they're d/l, sh <package>, and it'll walk you through rather cleanly. Tell it yes for everything, pretty much.
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