All you need to do when u use a new kernel is to reinstall the nvidia driver.

After getting the kernel sources you mean? I get complaints from the driver if I don't have them.
 
Ian

The driver needs the kernel source. I just did an installation on Mandrake. The readme faqs speaks to this.
 
At what point does the driver fail, on installation, or when you restart the system?
 
...and you did do the installation from init 3, not when "X" was running?

Just been trying again to get the best info I can. I have installed the driver on the previous kernel, 2.6.11-1.14
The latest kernel installed by up2date on my machine is 2.6.12-1.1372 so I grabbed the source from the Fedora download site and ran the RPM. I made sure to have a symlink in /usr/src called linux and linked to the linux-2.6.12-1 directory created from the RPM.
All goes well until it actually starts to look at the sources and then this happens...
 
nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Tue Aug 16 17:30:47 2005
 
option status:
license pre-accepted : false
update : false
force update : false
expert : false
uninstall : false
driver info : false
no precompiled interface: false
no ncurses color : false
query latest driver ver : false
OpenGL header files : true
no questions : false
silent : false
no backup : false
kernel module only : false
sanity : false
add this kernel : false
no runlevel check : false
no network : false
no ABI note : false
no RPMs : false
force tls : (not specified)
force compat32 tls : (not specified)
X install prefix : /usr/X11R6
OpenGL install prefix : /usr
compat32 install prefix : (not specified)
installer install prefix: /usr
utility install prefix : /usr
kernel name : (not specified)
kernel include path : (not specified)
kernel source path : /usr/src/linux-2.6.12-1
kernel output path : (not specified)
kernel install path : (not specified)
proc mount point : /proc
ui : (not specified)
tmpdir : /tmp
ftp mirror : ftp://download.nvidia.com
RPM file list : (not specified)
Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> License accepted.
-> There appears to already be a driver installed on your system (version: 1.0-
7667). As part of installing this driver (version: 1.0-7667), the existing
driver will be uninstalled. Are you sure you want to continue? ('no' will a
bort installation) (Answer: Yes)
-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li
ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f
rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes)
-> No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site;
this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for your kernel.
-> Using the kernel source path '/usr/src/linux-2.6.12-1' as specified by the
'--kernel-source-path' commandline option.
-> Kernel source path: '/usr/src/linux-2.6.12-1'
-> Performing CC test with CC="cc".
ERROR: If you are using a Linux 2.4 kernel, please make sure
you either have configured kernel sources matching your
kernel or the correct set of kernel headers installed
on your system.
 
If you are using a Linux 2.6 kernel, please make sure
you have configured kernel sources matching your kernel
installed on your system. If you specified a separate
output directory using either the "KBUILD_OUTPUT" or
the "O" KBUILD parameter, make sure to specify this
directory with the SYSOUT environment variable or with
the equivalent nvidia-installer command line option.
 
Depending on where and how the kernel sources (or the
kernel headers) were installed, you may need to specify
their location with the SYSSRC environment variable or
the equivalent nvidia-installer command line option.
ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file
'/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions
on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux
driver download page at www.nvidia.com.
 
You can see from this file that I also tried removing the symlink and actually naming the directory with the actual kernel name.
 
I would love to know what I am doing wrong.
 
Ian