problem compiling nvidia on 2.6.33

tramni1980 · 02-25-2010, 02:40 AM

Hello!

I cannot compile the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.53-pkg1 against kernel 2.6.33. It does compile against 2.6.32.9. Here is what I get when attempting to compile against 2.6.33:

Code:

./nvidia-kernel.SlackBuild
Creating directory NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.53-pkg1
Verifying archive integrity... OK              
Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 190.53............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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.

*** Unable to determine the target kernel version. ***

make: *** [select_makefile] Error 1
sh-3.1#

I use the nvidia-kernel.slackbuild script from slackbuilds.org. I have set the KERNEPATH variable to /lib/modules/2.6.33-mai/build and I do have such a directory on the system, I copied the kernel sources there:

Code:

sh-3.1# ls /lib/modules/2.6.33-mai/build
COPYING        Module.symvers  crypto    ipc              net       usr
CREDITS        README          drivers   kernel           samples   virt
Documentation  REPORTING-BUGS  firmware  lib              scripts   vmlinux
Kbuild         System.map      fs        mm               security  vmlinux.o
MAINTAINERS    arch            include   modules.builtin  sound
Makefile       block           init      modules.order    tools
sh-3.1#

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Regards,
Martin

bathory · 02-25-2010, 02:47 AM

Hi,

This is because some header files are in different directories in the new kernel tree (autoconf.h being one of them).
If you want to compile the nvidia kernel module use this patch

Regards

tramni1980 · 02-25-2010, 03:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

Hi,

This is because some header files are in different directories in the new kernel tree (autoconf.h being one of them).
If you want to compile the nvidia kernel module use this patch

Regards

Thank you very much for your reply.

Unfortunately this didn't work. There was an API version mismatch error.
Maybe I should wait until they release an nvidia driver version compatible with the 2.6.33 kernel version.

bathory · 02-25-2010, 03:52 AM

Hi,

It works for me with NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.53-pkg1.run driver (32bit). I'm using it since 2.6.33-rc7. Maybe it's because of the slackbuild.
Anyway if you want to use the Nvidia driver and not the slackbuild, you have to do this:

Code:

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.53-pkg1.run --extract-only
cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.53-pkg1
patch -p0 < /path/to/nvidia-betasam-2.6.33.patch.txt
./nvidia-installer

tramni1980 · 02-25-2010, 04:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

Hi,

It works for me with NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.53-pkg1.run driver (32bit). I'm using it since 2.6.33-rc7. Maybe it's because of the slackbuild.
Anyway if you want to use the Nvidia driver and not the slackbuild, you have to do this:

Code:

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.53-pkg1.run --extract-only
cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.53-pkg1
patch -p0 < /path/to/nvidia-betasam-2.6.33.patch.txt
./nvidia-installer

Dear bathory,

I solved the problem. I had forgotten to update the nvidia-driver package.

Now I have 190.53 and 2.6.33 working together. Thank you!

Regards,
Martin

specialized · 03-03-2010, 03:56 PM

and the 96.43.14 also had a patch???

samac · 03-03-2010, 04:48 PM

There is a new version of the nvidia driver out and you may wish to read this thread http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...515/page4.html

samac