On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:47:06 +1200 Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:31:20 +1200 > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:56:32 +1200 > > Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Nick Rout wrote: > > > > Lastly, but proboaly firstly, did you apply the > > > > vmware-any-any-update93.tar.gz as suggested by Novell in the link > > > > pointed to earlier in the thread? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes I did. And I had already posted to the vmware support forum - no > > > replies yet. I have found a few other references to the same situation > > > I have but for GSX Server or other versions, the risk in following such > > > may be worthwhile. > > > > > > I have actually had vmware running successfully once, with a functional > > > XP install. I installed a kernel patch, and bang, it broke! This view > > > comes from my reading of the Novell support page > > > http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html (or at least my > > > partial understanding of it - as best I can - is a little beyond me). > > > > > > I suspect that rolling back that patch may resolve things, though that > > > is probably too simplistic a view, given the subsequent "make > > > cloneconfig" commands that have been run... > > > > > > > > > > > > > That page describes an awful lot of shagging about in relation to > > building a module. All sanity requires is the configured kernel sources > > and the compiler. > > > > I don't want to turn this into a distro war, but the offer is still on > > to install gentoo on Saturday... > > I hope the problem isn't similar to that I found when trying to install the > proprietary nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 64 bit. In that case, the version of the > compiler delivered is 4.0.1, and the kernel is built with 3.4. Needless to > say, it won't build the module. > > Things like this make me realise just how mature 32 bit debian really is (was > ): ). > > Steve. Distros should have by default the version of gcc that was used to compile the kernel, and probably the rest of the system too. Does ubuntu give the option for an earlier version of gcc to match the kernel? Otherwise I guess you can compile a new kernel with gcc 4.01 and then install nvidia...
