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Re: Wrestling with NVIDIA (still!)



Have you simply tried the "nv" module that comes with the kernel?  I had 
fought with my MX4000 on 2.4.18bf2, and redid my isntall with the sarge 
net-inst using the 2.4.27 kernel and the nv module with it worked flawlessly

HTH,

On Friday March 11 2005 2:15 pm, David A. Cobb wrote:
> I have a reasonably-stable situation with nvidia graphics, based on the
> "2.4.29-f3" kernel and the nvidia-glx-6111.debs.  Sound, however, still
> escapes me.  I don't see a '.deb" that includes it, and the NFORCE
> installer from nVidia fails with the following compile errors:
>
>  Performing cc_version_check with CC="cc".
> -> running command /bin/grep "^PATCHLEVEL ="
>    /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.29-f3/Makefile | /usr/bin/cut -d " " -f 3
> -> Kernel module filename is nvsound.o
>    Cleaning kernel module build directory.
>    executing: 'cd ./nvsound/main; make clean'...
>    rm -f nv*.o *~ core
> -> Building kernel module:
>    executing: 'cd ./nvsound/main; make module
> SYSSRC=/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.
>    4.29-f3'...
>    cc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing
> -fno-co
>    mmon -fomit-frame-pointer  -I/lib/modules/2.4.29-f3/build/include -O
> -mprefe
>    rred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686    -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DLINUX
> -I.    -
>    c -o nvmain.o nvmain.c
>    In file included from /usr/include/asm/system.h:5,
>                     from /usr/include/asm/processor.h:18,
>                     from /usr/include/asm/thread_info.h:13,
>                     from /usr/include/linux/thread_info.h:21,
>                     from /usr/include/linux/spinlock.h:19,
>                     from /usr/include/linux/capability.h:45,
>                     from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:7,
>                     from /usr/include/linux/module.h:10,
>                     from nvmain.c:12:
>    /usr/include/linux/kernel.h:72: error: parse error before "size_t"
>    /usr/include/linux/kernel.h:74: error: parse error before "size_t"
>
>
> And many more following.
>
> The indicated area of "/usr/include/linux/kernel.h" looks like this:
> [starting at line#69]
>
> extern int sprintf(char * buf, const char * fmt, ...)
>     __attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 3)));
> extern int vsprintf(char *buf, const char *, va_list);
> extern int snprintf(char * buf, size_t size, const char * fmt, ...)
>     __attribute__ ((format (printf, 3, 4)));
> extern int vsnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list
> args);
>
> extern int sscanf(const char *, const char *, ...)
>     __attribute__ ((format (scanf,2,3)));
> extern int vsscanf(const char *, const char *, va_list);
>
> The construct ", ...)" is a new one for me!  It was a long while ago I
> learned 'C' and that wasn't part of it then.
>
> One thing that seems strange: "/usr/include/linux/" is not a link, thus
> it is not version-specific.  Should not the build procedure be picking
> up its headers from "/usr/src/linux [a symlink]" or
> "/usr/src/kernel-headers-$(uname -r)" ?  One would expect some version
> differences in there!  But then, again, I don't know and I want a load
> of less sensitive hacking before I muck about in my kernel.
>
> Ideally, there would be a reverse-engineered sound driver to do the job
> the way 'forcedeth' does for nvnet.  If anyone knows where to find such
> a beast, I'd love to hear about it.
>
> --
> David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
> "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." --
> The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy
> software!

-- 


Bill Day

"A rich man isn't always wealthy, he just has all the love he can give and 
ever wanted.."



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