dkms fails to identify current kernel source

[Kevin Krumwiede]

Binary driver wrappers like nvidia-current cannot be built on Lucid because dkms insists that the current kernel source is not installed.

Possibly related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dkms/+bug/602408. If so, it's been fixed in Maverick.

[Evan Broder (broder)]

Can you provide a bit more information as to what's going wrong? What version of nvidia-current are you using, where are you getting it from, etc.?

lucid-backports doesn't currently have a version of nvidia-currently, so it seems like this isn't really a backports-related issue. But if there is currently an issue in the Lucid dkms or nvidia-current packages, then those should probably be pursued through the SRU process (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates)

[Kevin Krumwiede (kjkrum)]

This can be closed. My problem stemmed from a misleading error message from DKMS when trying to build the nvidia wrapper myself. It complains about kernel source not being installed (even when it is) when what it really wants is the kernel headers package.

[Evan Broder (broder)]

Great, thanks for the update.