Re: nvidia drivers & kernel 2.4.14
Hi
Ijust bought a 32MB nVidia TNT 2 card, and I run Woody with a
fairly late 2.4 kernel. Am I going to have trouble? Xfree claims to
support this card in X 4.0
Am I in for it, as Mother used to say?
Am I smoking somethin'? Or should I be?
David
On 15 Nov 2001, Kyle Girard wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 13:18, Sean wrote:
> > I'm currently using the 2.4.15pre4 source from kernel.org, but this also
> > worked with 2.4.14 (also from kernel.org). All I did to get my nvidia
> > kernel module to work was:
> >
> > apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src
> > cd /usr/src/linux
> > make-kpkg modules_image
> >
> > This created a /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-<kernel version>_1.0.1541 deb,
> > which I then installed via dpkg -i.
> >
> > after that I did a depmod -a, and modprobe NVdriver
>
>
> I used gcc 2.95.4 this time and got a little farther.... module
> compiles/inserts fine but now when I try and start X I get the following
> message
>
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Write-combining range (0xe3000000,0x1000000)
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate LUT context DMA
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
>
> My roomate who's running an almost identical machine except with a
> geforce 2 doesn't have any problems...
>
> Anyone have any ideas? I'm thinking about submitting a bug to
> nvidia....
>
>
> >
> > On a side note, I am not using gcc-3.0.2, but rather 2.95.4. The few
> > times I've tried to use the gcc-3.0 compiler to compile the kernel I was
> > left with very unstable kernels. So perhaps that could be part of your
> > problem.
> >
> > Also don't forget to install the nvidia-glx package.
> >
> > Sean
> >
> > On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 12:47, Kyle Girard wrote:
> > > > Which 2.4.14 is it that you are using? The source direct from kernel.org? or
> > > > the Debian package? (I'm using direct from kernel.org)
> > >
> > > Here's my info:
> > >
> > > Debian (sid)
> > > 2.4.14 -- from .deb
> > > Xfree86 4.1.0
> > > Nvidia TNT
> > > gcc 3.0.2
> > >
> > > I can get the module to compile... but I get unresolved symbols if I use
> > > the includes from /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.14/include instead of
> > > headers from /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.14/include
> > >
> > > What are you gcc are you using?
> > >
> > > kyle
> > >
> > >
> > >
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