RE: Nvidia source compiling problems

[dbalder@pacbrands.com.au]

I've got the nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src both

> in /usr/src.
> I've used the following commands (as suggested by
> Ochronus somt time ago)
>
> cd /usr/src/
> tar xvfz nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz
>
> export KSRC=/usr/src/
>  - or -
> export KSRC=kernel-headers-2.4.18-k7/
>
> export KVERS=2.4.18
> cd modules/nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123
> debian/rules binary_modules
>
> Because the kernel is pre-compiled this gives problems
> (cc mismatch) - therefor I edited the Makefile in the
> NVIDIAxxxx subdir, so it won't stop right away. Then
> when I call the 'make' prog I get this error output:
>
> cc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat
> -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith
> -Wcast-qual -Wno-multichar  -O -MD -D__KERNEL__
> -DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE
> -DRM_HEAPMGR -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__
> -DMODULE  -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0
> -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=3123  -DNV_UNIX   -DNV_LINUX
> -DNVCPU_X86       -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include
> -Wno-cast-qual nv.c
> In file included from nv.c:14:
> nv-linux.h:24: linux/modversions.h: No such file or
> directory
> make: *** [nv.o] Error 1
>
> How do I get around this ??

Sorry about the previous post w/o RE line

Get kernel-source package of your choice and compile your own kernel.

If you can compile the driver module as you are trying to do, then you can compile your own kernel.


Davor