[wplug] geforce4 and redhat

[Vanco, Donald]

Tom McCullough wrote:
> bgtrio at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
>> Perhaps the symlink /usr/src/linux is pointing to the old kernel
>> source directory, so it's trying to use the wrong headers?  That's
>> caught me more than once. 
>> 
>> Incidentally, I use the source rpms and they really do work pretty
>> well, but be aware that the syntax has changed as of redhat 8.0; you
>> have to run the command 
>> 
>> rpmbuild --rebuild NV...kernel...src.rpm
>> rpmbuild --rebuild NV...GLX...src.rpm
>> 
>> then go into the /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 folder and get the newly
>> built rpms that you now have to install in the usual way.
>> 
>> I'm reallly wishing now that I had gotten a Radeon instead of a
>> Geforce2, since there appears to be no hope of getting Nvidia to
>> play nice with the dri driver developers. 
>> 
>> Bryon
>> 
>> 
> That didn't work for me.  I downloaded to my root directory and ran
> the above command.
> I got several errors
> 
> user buildmeister does not exist - using root
> group buildmeister does not exist - using root
> (same two lines over again)
> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.32617 (%install)
> 
> What did I do wrong this time???

	Sounds like a bad spec file in the src rpm

Don