On Wednesday 16 May 2001 18:07, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This has been giving me much trouble. I am trying to build the kernel
> module for my NVIDIA GeForce256. I obtained the NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769.tar
> file and extracted it to a directory, then ran make. These are the errors
> I got: ******
> cc -c -Wall -Wunknown-pragmas -Wno-multichar -O -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE
> -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DUNIX -DLINUX -DNV4_HW -DNTRM -DRM20 -D_X86_=1
> -Di386=1 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRM_HEAPMGR -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES
> -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=769 -I.
> -I/usr/src/linux/include nv.c
> In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/module.h:207,
> from nv.c:53:
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h:25:30: linux/version-up.h: No such
> file or directory
> In file included from nv.c:55:
> nv.h:127:40: missing binary operator before '<'
> nv.h:130:42: missing binary operator before '<'
> nv.h:133:48: missing binary operator before '<'
> In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/mm.h:4,
> from nv.c:60:
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/sched.h:10:25: linux/tasks.h: No such file or
> directory
> ******
> This is followed by about 20 errors of the form:
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/pci.h:1468:1: warning: pasting
> "pcibios_read_config_byte" and "(" does not give a valid preprocessing
> token
>
> Where are these files? Typing "locate version-up.h" comes up with nothing,
> as does "locate tasks.h". Are they part of the kernel source that wasn't
> included with my distribution (Mandrake 8.0)? Is it OK to symlink
> version.h to version-up.h? Also, the "missing binary operator" at those
> lines appears to be LINUX_VERSION_CODE
>
> After this, I tried with "make SYSINCLUDE=/usr/src/linux" which gives the
> following:
> *********
> In file included from nv.c:50:
> /usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should never use
> kernel-headers system headers,
> /usr/include/linux/modversions.h:2:2: #error but headers from an
> appropriate kernel-source
> *********
>
> I'd be very grateful for any help anyone can offer...
> My kernel is 2.4.3 . Thanks, and sorry this is so darn long.
>
> -Geoff
At the NVIDIA site there are source RPMS
Download the SRPMS, then
rpm -ivh filename.rpm for each of them
then
rpm --rebuiild filename.rpm for each, starting with the kernel interface one.
Then you have the latest NVIDIA drivers. Of course, since one of them has a
huge closed-source binary in it, you had best exclude the system running that
driver from any mission-critical or security critical tasks, since there is
no way to audit the probable performance, or to fix bugs.
Civileme
