Kernel 2.6.18-238.el5PAE Upgrade to 2.6.18-274
Posted: 2012/01/08 03:11:50
Hi,
I'm new to Linux and a friend has installed CentOS 5.5 on an 1TB external storage drive that I am using to boot my laptop from. I've recently learned about the yum command and have updated all my packages to the latest packages-- and now it seems CentOS has been updated to version 5.7. At least partially (I think).
When installing the NVIDIA driver for my video card, a QUADRO NVS 160M, the installation process is failing and indicates that:
i]"Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel. Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your kernel and that they are properly configured; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sur e you have the 'kernel-source' or 'kernel-devel' RPM installed. If you know the correct kernel source files are installed, you may specify the kernel source pa th with the '--kernel-source-path' command line option."[/i]
I have ran the following command when logged in as root:
yum install kernel-devel gcc kernel-headers
and this completed with no errors.
But somehow my kernel remains at 2.6.18-238.el5PAE when I suspect it is supposed to be 2.6.18-274, and this in turn, is what is causing my video driver install to fail.
Does this make sense?
Any help is appreciated!
Here is my "getinfo.sh driver" output:
== BEGIN uname -rmi ==
2.6.18-238.el5PAE i686 i386
== END uname -rmi ==
== BEGIN rpm -qa \*-release\* ==
centos-release-5-7.el5.centos
centos-release-notes-5.7-0
centos-release-cr-5-7.el5.centos
== END rpm -qa \*-release\* ==
== BEGIN cat /etc/redhat-release ==
CentOS release 5.7 (Final)
== END cat /etc/redhat-release ==
== BEGIN getenforce ==
Disabled
== END getenforce ==
== BEGIN free -m ==
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 4042 641 3401 0 39 436
-/+ buffers/cache: 166 3876
Swap: 6275 0 6275
== END free -m ==
== BEGIN rpm -qa kernel\* | sort ==
kernel-devel-2.6.18-274.12.1.el5
kernel-headers-2.6.18-274.12.1.el5
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-238.el5
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-274.12.1.el5
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-274.3.1.el5
== END rpm -qa kernel\* | sort ==
I'm new to Linux and a friend has installed CentOS 5.5 on an 1TB external storage drive that I am using to boot my laptop from. I've recently learned about the yum command and have updated all my packages to the latest packages-- and now it seems CentOS has been updated to version 5.7. At least partially (I think).
When installing the NVIDIA driver for my video card, a QUADRO NVS 160M, the installation process is failing and indicates that:
i]"Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running kernel. Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your kernel and that they are properly configured; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sur e you have the 'kernel-source' or 'kernel-devel' RPM installed. If you know the correct kernel source files are installed, you may specify the kernel source pa th with the '--kernel-source-path' command line option."[/i]
I have ran the following command when logged in as root:
yum install kernel-devel gcc kernel-headers
and this completed with no errors.
But somehow my kernel remains at 2.6.18-238.el5PAE when I suspect it is supposed to be 2.6.18-274, and this in turn, is what is causing my video driver install to fail.
Does this make sense?
Any help is appreciated!
Here is my "getinfo.sh driver" output:
== BEGIN uname -rmi ==
2.6.18-238.el5PAE i686 i386
== END uname -rmi ==
== BEGIN rpm -qa \*-release\* ==
centos-release-5-7.el5.centos
centos-release-notes-5.7-0
centos-release-cr-5-7.el5.centos
== END rpm -qa \*-release\* ==
== BEGIN cat /etc/redhat-release ==
CentOS release 5.7 (Final)
== END cat /etc/redhat-release ==
== BEGIN getenforce ==
Disabled
== END getenforce ==
== BEGIN free -m ==
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 4042 641 3401 0 39 436
-/+ buffers/cache: 166 3876
Swap: 6275 0 6275
== END free -m ==
== BEGIN rpm -qa kernel\* | sort ==
kernel-devel-2.6.18-274.12.1.el5
kernel-headers-2.6.18-274.12.1.el5
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-238.el5
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-274.12.1.el5
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-274.3.1.el5
== END rpm -qa kernel\* | sort ==