Red Hat 8 error on installing driver binaries

[nauticus]

when i type in
rpm -ivh NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4192.rh80up_2.4.18_18.8.0.athlon.rpm
to install the kernel drivers, th gives me this error at the end of the output:

failed to install nvidia.o

error: %post(NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.rh80up_2.4.18_18.8.0) scriptlet failed, exit status 1


i run a geforce 2 gts and a 1.2 ghz athlon
thanx in advance

i also have the newest red hat linux kernel update

[jnd3]

Get the source RPM. I think the latest kernel update from RH is -19.8.0, not -18.8.0, so there is a version mismatch. Check the readme for how to do the install from source RPM. It's an extra step of "rpmbuild --rebuid source.rpm"...

Cheers,
JND

[bwkaz]

And make sure you have kernel-source-2.4.18-19.8.0 installed and configured as well.

Configure it by looking in the /usr/src/linux/configs/ directory for something that matches your hardware, copying it to ../.config, going to /usr/src/linux, and running make mrproper oldconfig dep.

[nauticus]

oh... version mismatch... i am SOOO stupid
thanx for the help!

[nauticus]

i tried rebuilding the source rpm
rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm
and i get this at the end of the output:

RPM build errors:
user buildmeister does not exist - using root
group buildmeister does not exist - using root
user buildmeister does not exist - using root
group buildmeister does not exist - using root
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.24123 (%install)

whats going on?

[bwkaz]

Those errors shouldn't matter... as long as you got a .rpm file in the output directory, you should be good. If you didn't, then there were other errors that you haven't posted. ;)