Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Oct 2001 00:51:07 +0200 | From | "J . A . Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.13-pre6 breaks Nvidia's kernel module |
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On 20011023 Josh McKinney wrote: >On approximately Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:05:48AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: >> >> I use the same version of the driver with my Geforce3 and I am also >> running 2.4.13-pre6 and it works just fine so I don't agree with you >> that it breaks... >> You do know that there are a few files that need to be recompiled every >> time you build a new kernel - right? >> > >I have replied to this person personally a when this thread started with what I >think is the fix to his problem. I have seen this error on my machine before. >The problem arose when I compiled the running kernel with gcc-3.0. At first I >thought it was just gcc-3 breaking the kernel. Then I realized that the nvidia >modules use `cc` to compile. The symlink to cc was gcc-2.95. Changing the >symlink to gcc-3.0 made the problem go away. >
The first thing I did was to kach the horrible nVidia's Makefile. For example, it had the bad intention of compiling and installing against the running kernel (guess kernel with uname -r). So when you update the kernel, you have to reboot and make nVidia drivers. I changed it to:
+KREL:=`grep UTS_RELEASE /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h | cut -d\" -f2` -KERNDIR:=/lib/modules/$(shell uname -r) +KERNDIR:=/lib/modules/$(KREL)
so it builds against a built but not-running kernel.
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