Hi Troy,

Thanks for the hint. It is now working. However it involved a few more
steps, which might be evident for someone more experienced, but here it
is as it might be helpful for someone else:

I had kernel 2.6.18-8.1.3 instaled and the latest is now 2.6.18-8.1.8
so I did as suggested:
yum install kernel-devel (brought in *-8.1.8)
yum install kernel (installed latest version and I rebooted using it)
yum install kernel-headers (Nvidia complained about missing headers and
aborted before I did this)

I used sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.11-pkg2.run kernel-source-path
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.1.8.el5-x86_64


Regards,
Luis
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 14:27, Troy Dawson wrote:
> Luis Torres wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I installed SL5.0 in a new system (x86_64), which has a NVidia board, so
> > I was forced to install the OS in text mode. The kernel is
> > 2.6.18-8.1.3.el5 and I downloaded the Nvidia package with the drivers,
> > in order to use X: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.11-pkg2.run
> > 
> > Now I need to compile the kernel, through the above package, but I lack
> > the  rpm sources. That is Nvidia is expecting the tree:
> > /usr/src/linux-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5 , to be in place.
> > 
> > Could someone please provide info on:
> > a) which src rpms are needed and where to find them
> > b) how to build the tree usinf rpm
> > c) if the final build needs to be moved or goes to the "right" place
> > (i.e. where the NVIDIA package expects it to be).
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Regards,
> > Luis
> 
> Hi Luis,
> You don't really need to build the kernel to use the nvidia driver, you just 
> need the header files.
> 
>    yum install kernel-devel
> 
> And, as long as you have the compilers installed as well, you should be able to 
> compile your nvidia drivers.
> 
> Troy