On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 11:36 -0500, Roger D Vargas wrote: > The stock kernel, installed by CentOS 4.2. > > > Jim Perrin wrote: > > On 1/14/06, Roger D Vargas <luo_hei at yahoo.es> wrote: > > > >>Im trying to install an old nvidia driver, the last that has support for > >>obsolete cards. But when the compilation process ends I get an error: > >>says that kernel version is not the same of the sources used to compile > >>driver. I checked version of kernel sources and running kernel and they > >>are the same, can somebody tell me whats wrong? > > > > > > Is this a stock kernel, or did you rebuild it from source? > > > > OK ... some things to check. Are you running kernel or kernel-smp. ... also, what is your arch ... You can do the this command to tell: uname -a Here is an example output: Linux myth.home.local 2.6.9-27.ELsmp #1 SMP Sun Jan 1 18:52:29 CST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux ---------------- Next, make sure you have the kernel-devel (or kernel-smp-devel if you are running the SMP kernel, like I am in my example) ... for instance, I need to have kernel-smp-2.6.9-27.EL installed if I want to rebuild kernel modules. the following will let you know which kernel files you have installed: rpm -qa kernel* --------------- If you have a matching kernel and kernel-devel ... or a matching kernel- smp and kernel-smp-devel then the nvidia drivers should build fine. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060115/21ef46b4/attachment-0005.sig>