Re: nVidia kernel drivers not working

[Lorenzo Bettini <bettini@dsi.unifi.it>]

Are you sure you have the right kernel headers?

what's the result of the following command?

ls -l /lib/modules/`uname -r`

Paolo Pantaleo wrote:
> I tried to compile nvidia kernle module using both m-a and the binary
> package from nvidia site. The building always fails in the same way.
>
> I have:
> Kernel  2.6.14-1-k7
> gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 (Debian 4.0.2-2)
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7667
>
> I have the right kernel headers installed
>
> I cannot compile kernel modules, i get these errors, and many many more
>
>
> NVIDIA: calling KBUILD...                                                  │
> │ make CC=gcc-4.0 -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/n │
> │ make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.14-1-k7'           │
> │ echo \#define NV_COMPILER \"`gcc-4.0 -v 2>&1 | tail -n 1`\" > /usr/src/mod │
> │   CC [M]  /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv.o                           │
> │ In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:11,                           │
> │                  from /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv-linux.h:45,     │
> │                  from /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv.c:14:           │
> │ include/linux/linkage.h:5:25: error: asm/linkage.h: No such file or direct │
> │ In file included from include/linux/posix_types.h:47,                      │
> │                  from include/linux/types.h:13,                            │
> │                  from include/linux/kernel.h:13,                           │
> │                  from /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv-linux.h:45,     │
> │                  from /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv.c:14:           │
> │ /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.2/include/asm/posix_types.h:13:22: error:  │
> │ /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.2/include/asm/posix_types.h:14:35: error:  │
> │ In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:13,                           │
>
>
>
>
> Did anyone have the same problem?
>
> Thnx
> Paolo


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