Hello Everyone - this is my first post here therefore sorry for any errors I may do ;-)

My goal is to install the new nVidia drivers on a debian woody with 2.4.20 kernel

Systems:
a) Winfast K7NCR18D with GeForce 4 Ti 4600
b) Asus A7V-333 ER with leadtek GeForce3 Ti 200

both systems have been installed through the boot floppyes available here: people.debian.org/~blade/ then bf2.4

I have downloaded the tar source files of both kernel and glx, version 4191. I untared them, then run make install in both, as described. The problem is : every manual supposes that this goes just well, and continues with config of the XF86config-4 file. Nothing is right!

first I got an error with modversions.h. I fixed that one by adding:

deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free
same line with deb-src.

then apt-get update
then apt-get install kernel-headers-2.4.20
then apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.20

then i returned into the nvidia kernel directory, and run
make install SYSINCLUDE=/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include

this helped a lot, since i now get another error message :-/

now its:
riv:~/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191# make install SYSINCLUDE=/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.20/include/
ld -r -o nvidia.o nv-linux.o nv-kernel.o
size nvidia.o
text data bss dec hex filename
1248439 92824 32940 1374203 14f7fb nvidia.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o
make: *** [package-install] Error 1
riv:~/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191#

this error seems widespread, but the solutions I tried didn't work.

My assumption was that the kernel sources I dled were different from the actual kernel installed, so I installed a fresh 2.4.20 kernel on system (a).

I rerunned the make command.

and...

still got the same error.

<...banging my head slowly on the table...>

At this point, I WELLCOME any help - since I am totally lost!
later, i'll have also problems with the nforce drivers that state
cc1 Invalid option '-falign-functions=4'

please turn on user_is_dumb mode for replys ;-)

thanx!

I too am having a problem. I downloaded the latest nvidia source. When I run "make" in the nvidia driver source directory, I get the following:

ld -r -o nvidia.o nv-linux.o nv-kernel.o
size nvidia.o
text data bss dec hex filename
1248126 92760 32940 1373826 14f682 nvidia.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18-24.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o
/lib/modules/2.4.18-24.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol mem_map_Rfa588ddb
/lib/modules/2.4.18-24.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol proc_root_driver_Re083a0d7
/lib/modules/2.4.18-24.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol init_mm_R53803726
/lib/modules/2.4.18-24.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol register_chrdev_R7f978a1c
/lib/modules/2.4.18-24.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol remove_proc_entry_Rffeac3fc
/lib/modules/2.4.18-24.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol irq_stat_R04f4c6f7
/lib/modules/2.4.18-24.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol create_proc_entry_R3784f9a1
/lib/modules/2.4.18-24.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol proc_root_Ra289cfd3
/lib/modules/2.4.18-24.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o: unresolved symbol __pollwait_Raa34e74a
/lib/modules/2.4.18-24.8.0/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o:
Hint: You are trying to load a module without a GPL compatible license
and it has unresolved symbols. Contact the module supplier for
assistance, only they can help you.

I did the searching, and it seems there is a kernel source compatibility issue, but it is not at all clear how to resolve. I have RH8, 2.4.18-24.8.0 kernel and the source (all retrieved using up2date).

Well, I found the solution that worked for me:

since I installed from 2.4.20 - boot floppies -

I had to download the exact kernel headers: 2.4.20-bf2.4-2.4.20

the make instal SYSINCLUDE=/usr/src/kernel-headers(...)/include et voila!

i had a similar error... the solution was not only to have the correct kernel and headers all matching as well as the currently running kernel, but then finally a "make clean" on the driver removed an incorrect object leftover from incorrect headers.

just make sure you recompile the driver from the ground up every time

Although I am not at home, I can almost bet that is what it is. I probably have a lot of leftover object files from my hours of trying to build with the wrong source/kernel files.


As to the previous post, I did use SYSINCLUDE= to do my builds. Thanks for the help both of you, hopefully when I get in tonight I will be able to resolve the problem quickly.

Well yes, lets just say I took the habit to completely remove the folder and re-decompress the gzipped tarball - makefiles aren't allways perfect :-)

Ya-hoo, just got to work an matrox G400 mill with hardware acceleration... im getting better :-þ

of course... way to be sure