MHR wrote: >> Perhaps I was not clear in my original email, the point being that you dont >> need to rebuild drivers when kernels update ( in 99% of the cases ) > > Is that now true also of the nvidia driver(s)? I haven't seen > anything so to indicate. The nvidia driver, for me, built against 2.6.18-8.el5) has worked fine upto the latest released kernel ( 2.6.18-92.el5 ) try running the vmware-server installed on centos-5, irrespective of what kernel version you use / run - the vmware binary modules used are from an early kernel as well... ------ [kbsingh at koala misc]$ /sbin/modinfo vmmon.o | grep verm vermagic: 2.6.18-8.el5 SMP mod_unload gcc-4.1 [kbsingh at koala misc]$ uname -r 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 ------- -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq