On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, John Fox wrote:

> If you are unable to get an RPM for your specific OS version, you can download 
> the .src.rpm and run rpmbuild to build your own version.

It actually sounds like the kernel version you have source for and the 
version you have installed are different.

Have you built a custom kernel and not installed it?  

> 
> On Sunday 06 July 2003 02:02 pm, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 09:43, Szabolcs Rozsnyai wrote:
> > Hi to all!
> >
> > I have RH 8.0 Kernel 2.4.20 running and I wanted to install the nvidia
> > drivers using this automatic Nvidia.sh installer, but it gives me follwing
> > message:
> >
> > ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.o'. This is most likely
> > because the kernel module was built using the wrong kernel header files.
> > Please make sure you have installed the kernel header files for your
> > kernel; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the
> > 'kernel-source' rpm installed. If you know the correct kernel header
> > files are installed, you may specify the kernel include path with the
> > '--kernel-include-path' commandline option.
> > -> Kernel module load error: ./usr/src/nv/nvidia.o: kernel-module version
> > mismatch
> > ./usr/src/nv/nvidia.o was compiled for kernel version 2.4.20V2
> > while this kernel is version 2.4.20.
> >
> >
> > Any idea what could be wrong?
> >
> >
> > Szabolcs
> 
> Yup, closed source drivers. AFAIK Nvidia still has to build their binary
> drivers for every kernel combination. Please email them and ask if there
> is a way to get your video card running.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ryan
> 
> 


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