Linked by Steve Barnhart on Tue 18th Nov 2003 01:36 UTC
I recently picked up a copy of SuSE 9.0 Professional. I have never used or been familiar with a SuSE product before as I've only used Mandrake, Red Hat, and a bit of Debian. After using Red Hat for a while I decided to evaluate SuSE and I am now sorry for not having tried it sooner.
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"SuSE's kernel sources have some sort of Makefile bug or whatnot so that any module one compiles against them won't be accepted by insmod. Instead, insmod complains of a kernel version mismatch. Why the other distros get this right and SuSE doesn't, I don't know exactly."
Never mind. I think I'm an idiot. From the ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-4496/README.txt:
Q: I can't build the NVIDIA kernel module, or I can build the NVIDIA
kernel module, but modprobe/insmod fails to load the module into
my kernel. What's wrong?
A: These problems are generally caused by the build using the wrong kernel
header files (ie header files for a different kernel version than
the one you are running). The convention used to be that kernel
header files should be stored in "/usr/include/linux/", but that
is deprecated in favor of "/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include".
The nvidia-installer should be able to determine the location on your
system; however, if you encounter a problem you can force the build
to use certain header files by using the --kernel-include-dir option.
Obviously, for this to work, you need the appropriate kernel header
files installed on your system. Consult the documentation that came
with your distribution; some distributions don't install the kernel
header files by default, or they install headers that don't coincide
properly with the kernel you are running.
(BTW, no I was not trying to build NVIDIA modules, but the problem relates to the kernel version mismatch issues with other modules, I think.)