Re: Error while installing nvidia driver

[Norbert Zeh <nzeh@cs.dal.ca>]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 07:25:52PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Sunday 19 April 2009, a dehqan wrote:
> > In The name of God
> >
> > I'll be thankfull if you guide to fix this problem ;
> > This is nvidia installer log :
> >
> > regards dehqan
> 
> It seems to me you should link the compiler that matches your kernel & 
> headers.  This would be:  'ln -sf /usr/bin/gcc-4.1 /usr/bin/gcc'

This would be overkill.  Invoking the NVIDIA installer as

CC=gcc-4.1 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.29-pkg2.run

or whatever the installer is called that you are trying to run does the
trick.

Cheers,
Norbert