NVIDIA nForce driver installation problem on RedHat 8.0

alphajoe · 10-10-2002, 03:32 PM

Has anyone had any success compiling the source tarball for the nforce chipset?

I am getting the following errors when I try and compile the tarball:

warning: user buildmeister does not exist - using root
warning: user buildmeister does not exist - using root
warning: user buildmeister does not exist - using root
warning: user buildmeister does not exist - using root

I get this error a couple of times during the compile, then it fails at the end with:

Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5818

Looking farther up in the output, I find the following lines:

Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5818
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD
+ cd nforce
+ LANG=C
+ export LANG
+ -n nforce
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5818: line 23: -n: command not found

Has anyone else had trouble installing the sources for the nForce chipset under RedHat 8.0?

Thanks,

Smitty-rh · 10-10-2002, 03:45 PM

reinstall the kernel source.

I had that problem with the kernel source from the disks and when I downloaded it via apt then I could compile nvidia's source for video drivers.

barney · 10-17-2002, 01:07 AM

Did you reinstall the kernel source? Did this fix your problem?

I can't get x-windows running on a #$%@ing k7n420 board.

alphajoe · 10-17-2002, 01:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by barney
Did you reinstall the kernel source? Did this fix your problem?

I can't get x-windows running on a #$%@ing k7n420 board.

I don't have any trouble with x-windows, but nvidia is releasing a new driver for 8.0. The current driver was created with gcc 2.x, but the kernel for 8.0 is compiled with gcc v3.x. As a result, it will never compile because the two .o files are not compatible with gcc 3.x.

I can hang tight until the new driver comes out, which should be soon.

dara · 10-19-2002, 07:49 AM

well if anyone could tell me how to compile the driver manually from the source and wheather that works or not, because until I can get that driver working under RH8.0 I'm moving back to 7.3 which is a shame because I've been hearing some really good things about RH8.0.

btw I don't understand make files and as far as I can tell even when compiling the source on the system using the makefile the system still comes up and states that the driver has been compiled with version 2 instead of version 3.

alphajoe · 10-19-2002, 10:29 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by dara
well if anyone could tell me how to compile the driver manually from the source and wheather that works or not, because until I can get that driver working under RH8.0 I'm moving back to 7.3 which is a shame because I've been hearing some really good things about RH8.0.

btw I don't understand make files and as far as I can tell even when compiling the source on the system using the makefile the system still comes up and states that the driver has been compiled with version 2 instead of version 3.

There are two files that are in the source that do not compile under gcc 3. I am by no means a gcc expert, but the files have the extension .o, and they are precompiled beforehand. As far as I know, there is no source for either one of these, and we have to wait for nVidia to release new versions so that the source can be compiled under gcc 3.x.