[Error] Kernel Module : No kernel module build environment
I've been trying to install the official ATI driver for my graphics card,
but I get the following error: [Error] Kernel Module : No kernel module build environment The strange think is that the installation works fine in the 2.4.x kernel, but in the 2.6.8-2-686 kernel it give the above error. I'm using Sarge and i have the kernel sources and headers for 2.6.8-2-686 installed. what other package do I need to install? Where am I going wrong? |
did you try downloading the kernel-build-2.6xxxx package? can that have anything to do w/it?
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Yes - but no such pacakge exists for i386, it's all for powerpc, sparc, etc.
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:confused: I have the same error but I'm using the 2.4 sarge kernel. I'm
super new to Linux so I'm hoping it's something simple! I read that the software requirements are POSIX, glibc 2.2 or 2.3, Linux Kernel 2.4 or higher, and XFree86 4.3. I don't know about POSIX, that's a total mystery to me, but Debian sarge should use glibc 2.3, and XFree86 I have installed is 4.3. As I mentioned I am using the 2.4 Kernel About POSIX and glibc, are those packages I need to specify? Hep! I'm surfing the web in w3m!! |
What I don when installing ATI drivers is convert the RPM dpackage to .DEB packages using a program called "alien". You can search for it using apt-get.
Afterwards, installing the DEB is easy (although you need to use the --overwrite-all feature). |
It said "Unknown type of package".
I used apt-get install alien then I navigated to the directory where the ATI driver installer lives and typed alien ati-driver-installer-8.28.8.run Is there another set of drivers I should use? Did neglect a dependency with alien? It says in the man that it needs rpm so I tried to install it but it was already current. |
That's not an RPM package. An RPM package ends in .rpm and not in .run. You can doenload the RPM from the ATI website.
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I got it figured out.
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