Re: nvidia building from source (2.6.15)
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 11:29, you wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:24:19AM -0800, Sebastian Haase wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm running kernel version 2.6.15 from backports (2.6.15-1-amd64-k8-smp)
> > Then I tried to build the nvidia kernel module after dpkg -i
> > linux-headers-2.6.15-1...(also from backports)
> > when trying to build the nvidia-kernel-source (following the instructions
> > in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-source
> > I got: cannot open perl script
> > "/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-1/scripts/setlocalversion"
> > The "scripts" folder seems not to exist in linux-headers anymore (vs. for
> > older kernels the package was called: kernel-headers)
> >
> > Then I tried the module-assistant: it first went all well until
> > "(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
> > in /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> > Trying a manual "modprobe nvidia" says:
> > root@omx:/lib/modules# modprobe nvidia
> > nvidia: Unknown symbol register_ioctl32_conversion
> > nvidia: Unknown symbol unregister_ioctl32_conversion
> > FATAL: Error inserting nvidia
> > (/lib/modules/2.6.15-1-amd64-k8-smp/nvidia/nvidia.
> > ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> >
> > (I was wondering were the nvidia-glx-ia32 might come in - but it did not
> > fix the problem...)
> >
> > Then I decided to go for a new version of the nvidia - 7174 from sarge
> > might be rather old anyway ...
> > so I googled and found
> > http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia/dists/unstable/nvidia-graphics-d
> >rivers/binary-amd64/
> >
> > BAD idea !! In deselect it now complains that libc6 needs >= 2.3.5-1
> > So: I hope I can undo this ...
> >
> > Any hint on where I can get a working (new) nvidia module for (any)
> > rather new kernel !?
>
> Perhaps you can rebuild the newer nvidia package. Not sure. Then again
> it might depend on a newer debhelper version or something. You can try
> it though with the source package from etch/sid, and doing:
>
> dpkg-source -x nvidia*dsc
> cd nvidia-...
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -b
>
> Then install the resulting packages with dpkg -i
>
> I actually though 7174-3 worked with 2.6.15 though. Maybe that is x86
> only though. Or maybe amd64 doesn't have the same version as sarge i386
> does. Worth checking actually.
>
> Len Sorensen
google just gave me this:
http://colossus.apana.org.au/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-2.6.15-1-amd64-k8
does that mean the package already exists !? Is anyone from apana.org.au on
this list ;-)
- Sebastian Haase
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