I am a new Linux user testing the waters and having some problems.

I have Redhat 8 and an ATI All in Wonder 128 on a P3 750 running Kernel Linux-2.4.18-27.8.0

I downloaded xsvc-3.0-41.i386.rpm and Summit_DX-Platnium-2.2-9.i386.rpm from xig.com...and to make a long story short..

I ran rpm -Uhv xsvc-3.0-41.i386.rpm and got some error telling me compile it manually which I have no idea how to do. I emailed xig support and was told I would need to create a symlink to /usr/src/linux from the kernel source tree that I had installed: Something like:

ln -s /usr/src/Linux-2.4.18-27.8.0 /usr/src/linux

cd /usr/src/xig/xsvc
make clean
make
make install

Well I did create the symlink fine, but on make I got 3 warning lines about -malign telling me to use -falign, so I checked here on Linuxquestions.org and found I had to edit the xsvc Makefile and change -malign to -falign. That got rid of those warnings but I still got an error again...only this time its says .../linux/modversions.h does not exist.

I checked the Linux symlink folder and it only contains the folders Linux-2.4 and Linux-2.4.18-27.8.0, but modversions.h does exist in each of those folders.

I tried to edit the Makefile again but I can't find anywhere the reference to the path of linux is.

Any ideas?

Strange - I can't seem to find a modversions.h on any of my boxes.

Does the source you are trying to build require you to patch the kernel?

<edit> Oops. A closer look and some improved keyboard skills has revealed the 'missing' file.

what do you see when you type in 'ls -la /usr/src/linux'?

It says Linux-2.4.18-27.8.0 -> /usr/src/Linux-2.4.18-27.8.0

Shouldn't it be Linux -> /usr/src/Linux-2.4.18-27.8.0 or Linux2.4.18-27.8.0 -> /usr/src/Linux??


hmmm??

I think I fixed the symlink issue...I went into KDE and deleted the old one and made a new one....now it says Linux -> /usr/src/Linux-2.4.18-27.8.0

So I ran Make and it worked this time with out errors,
then I did Make install and it worked too..

But then I ran rpm -Uhv xsvc-3.0-41.i386.rpm and got...
error:failed to stat smbfs: no such file or directory??????
The it said the package was already installed..but when I ran Xaccel it said...
Fatal server error:
Could not open /dev/xsvc

Which is what I was getting at the at the beginning of all this.

I was told by xig support to do...
rpm -e --nodeps xsvc
rpm -ihv xsvc-3.0-41.i386.rpm

that actually worked out ok...
but then this happened next...

cd /usr/src/xig/xsvc
modprobe xsvc

/lib/modules/2.4.18-27.8.0/misc/xsvc.o: Unresolved symbol smp_call_function
/lib/modules/2.4.18-27.8.0/misc/xsvc.o: Unresolved symbol smp_num_cpus
/lib/modules/2.4.18-27.8.0/misc/xsvc.o:
Hint: blah blah blah GPL license... Unresolved symbols...call vendor for help
/lib/modules/2.4.18-27.8.0/misc/xsvc.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-27.8.0/misc/xsvc.o failed

then I did
make xsvctest
seemed to run ok
but...
./xsvctest
xsvc:can't open /dev/xsvc: no such device

Any ideas anyone? Is this normally how dificult it is to install stuff?

Yeah, i got that Unresolved symbols thing too... Im beginning to think that god doesnt want me to run X in more that 640x480 in 8bit