> So sprach Steve Wray am Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 12:49:41PM +1300:
> > (I'm not putting detail in here cos it'd be redundant;
> > nvidia have done a great job on this!)
>
> Actually, a little detail would be nice! The way you suggested,
> --rebuild'ing the src.rpm used to work for me as well. But I've installed
> kernel-2.4.0-0.15mdk and the header files. There the file
oh... well I've never worked with kernels above 2.2.18
I suspect my knowledge may be a little redundant for
you...
Is it possible that the NVidia module is incompatible with that
kernel?
(which, reading further sounds like its the case.
You are getting into the realm of kernel hacking -- making your
own custom kernel -- not just running make config.
Check the kernel hackers guide at www.linuxdoc.org)
> /usr/include/linux/modversions.h gets set to:
>
> #error Modules should never use kernel-headers system headers,
> #error but headers from an appropriate kernel-source
>
> As the sources for the kernel driver of NVIDIA seems to include this file,
> building breaks.
>
> As I'm not such a C wizard, I don't know how to patch the sources so that
> building works. What is meant by those messages, and how to fix?
>
> Thx,
>
> Alexander Skwar
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