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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Up until kernel 3.7.9-201 I was able to compile the driver source: Now it reports that it can't find /usr/src/kernels/3.7.9-XXX/include/linux/version.h. The reason I have resorted to compiling the driver is that the kmod-nvidia drivers provided in the repo had stopped working on my system early in FC-17's life. I guess that is a problem with rpmfusion. Now it seems like the the development package is incomplete in that I no longer can build the source for the above reason. I don't want to have to download the kernel source from www.kernel.org and build the headers every time there is (HowTos)

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Submitted by leex on 02/28/2013

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