First my uname -a
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Linux quad 2.6.33 #1 SMP Sun Mar 7 18:22:02 CET 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I am using Trisquel GNU/Linux 3.0. I am asking my questions here, since this involves non-free drivers. I succesfully installed the nvidia driver on the default kernel. But the default kernel has removed all support for DVB USB sticks, so I had to compile my own kernel.
I got the newest version from kernel.org. Saved the archieve to /usr/src/. unzipped the file in the directory (so my kernel source is now in /usr/src/linux-2.6.33/.) Made a symlink with ln -s linux-2.6.33 linux. I compiled the kernel succesfully. Did a "make install" and "make modules_install" and ran "update-grub". Restarted system. Cd'ed to my source directory and ran "make headers_install" succesfully. Looking at my timestamps, it looks like the kernel headers has been installed to /usr/src/linux-2.6.33/usr/include/linux/.
I downloaded the latest x86_64 drivers from nvidias website. Went to console 1 and closed up X.
If I start the installer without any parameters (sh NVIDIA*.run) I get the following error:
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ERROR: Unable to determine the version of the kernel sources located in
'/lib/modules/2.6.33/source'. Please make sure you have installed the
kernel source files for your kernel and that they are properly
configured; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the
'kernel-source' or 'kernel-devel' RPM installed. If you know the
correct kernel source files are installed, you may specify the kernel
source path with the '--kernel-source-path' command line option.
/lib/modules/2.6.33/source is a symlink which point to /usr/src/linux-2.6.33
I get the same error if using --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux/, /usr/src/linux-2.6.33/ and similar options which link to this directory through symlinks.
If I use --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux-2.6.33/usr/include, I get the following error:
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ERROR: The kernel header file
'/usr/src/linux-2.6.33/usr/include/include/linux/kernel.h' does not
exist. The most likely reason for this is that the kernel source path
'/usr/src/linux-2.6.33/usr/include' is incorrect.
etc.
OK, that makes sense, I think to myself, since the headers file (and the *.h file referred to) are not in /usr/src/linux-2.6.33/usr/include/include/linux/ but /usr/src/linux-2.6.33/usr/include/linux/
I then ran the installer with --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux-2.6.33/usr/ but got the following error:
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ERROR: Unable to determine the version of the kernel sources located in
'/usr/src/linux-2.6.33/usr/'. Please make sure you have installed the
kernel source files for your kernel and that they are properly
configured;
What am I missing? Why can't the installer find the sources? I triple checked all my symlinks in /usr/src/ and /lib/modules/ and they all point at the appropiate places.
