> > I attempted this because the "Updater" icon kept showing that a new > > kernel was available evn though YaST2 did not show this. I've been > > attempting to upgrade the NVidia drivers (9746) after updating the > > kernel. I've followed the > > http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html#3 > > instructions. Needless to say, i couldn;t get the latest drivers to > > install, it kept crashing out with "unable to find..... kernel.h" even > > though it was there. > > There's no way the nvidia driver would have caused a crash if you couldn't > even build the module.
the nvidia driver didn't crash, it was the installer that failed. > > So, you must that the installer exited with an error. Did you boot into the > new kernel before running the nvidia installer? It can't use kernel headers > that are already gone.. Yes, and i checked the file did exist > > > I was wondering if it was down to version number mismatch, should the > > source and binary kernel version numbers match? The don't seem to > > on this mirror I use for updates > > http://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/Kernel/SUSE_Linux_10.1/i58 > >6/ > > > > Parent Directory > > - kernel-debug-2.6.18.1-1.3.i586.rpm 15-Nov-2006 20:55 > > 19M kernel-default-2.6.18.1-1.3.i586.rpm 15-Nov-2006 11:57 > > 18M kernel-source-2.6.18.5-36.1.i586.rpm 29-Dec-2006 11:37 > > 45M kernel-xen-2.6.18.1-1.4.i586.rpm 14-Nov-2006 > > 22:41 18M > > AFAIK you can't use the nvidia drivers in a xen kernel. Are you running the > xen kernel? I installed the Default, not the Xen Thanks for your response Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
