Campy19 Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 OK, I have updated my Kernel to 2.6.3 and I have installed kernel-source.2-3mdk and I believe that these match. The kernel source files for 2.4 do not seem to be present in rpmdrake, but the 2.4 kernel is (should I remove it, 2.6 works fine?)....here is the nvidia installer log file: nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' creation time: Sat Feb 21 01:25:54 2004 option status: license pre-accepted : false update : false force update : false expert : false uninstall : false driver info : false no precompiled interface: false no ncurses color : false query latest driver ver : false OpenGL header files : false no questions : false silent : false XFree86 install prefix : /usr/X11R6 OpenGL install prefix : /usr Installer install prefix: /usr kernel source path : (not specified) kernel install path : (not specified) proc mount point : /proc ui : (not specified) tmpdir : /root/tmp ftp site : ftp://download.nvidia.com Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface -> License accepted. -> There appears to already be a driver installed on your system (version: 1.0- 5328). As part of installing this driver (version: 1.0-5336), the existing driver will be uninstalled. Are you sure you want to continue? ('no' will a bort installation) (Answer: Yes) -> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes) -> No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site; this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for your kernel. -> Kernel source path: '/usr/src/linux' -> Performing cc_version_check with CC="cc". ERROR: Unable to determine the NVIDIA kernel module filename. ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com. Thanks, Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 The kernel source file must exactly match the running kernel for compiling files. So, for example, kernel-2.4.22-26mdk must have kernel-source-2.4.22-26mdk installed in order to compile files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adriano Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 The kernel source file must exactly match the running kernel for compiling files. What about the -stripped version of 2.6.3.1 that weighs a third or less of what the full source does? Is that useful as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 I don't know. Theoretically, the sources are what was used to make the kernel. If there is stuff missing, then that is not the kernel you are running!! I don't know to what degree the extra patches effect the basic header files that programs use to compile an rpm for your machine. Safe answer is your sources must match your running kernel if you want your rpm's to compile correctly, or in Nvidia's case, to compile at all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 What about the -stripped version of 2.6.3.1 what would that be? ....and where did ya get it? Stripped? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adriano Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 on cooker, there's a kernel-source-stripped for 2.6.3.1 It weighs about 55 MB against the 170 of the full source package... There's something very weird there, I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 not on my french cooker :unsure: .... ....very weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 Please indicate which mirror this stripped kernel is on - I want it too. And yes, the stripped kernel has all that's needed to build the Nvidia driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 just found the source: ftp://ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de/pub/Mandrake-...3-1mdk.i586.rpm there's also the stripped source: ftp://ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de/pub/Mandrake-...3-1mdk.i586.rpm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 I don't think the full kernel is completely the same anyway. I had lots of problems in 9.1 with the kvanilla kernel from Mandrake in that when I compiled it with 4GB HIMEM the nforce modules gave all sorts of errors that ading them to the binary downlo0ad didn't do. If you download a mandrake source, the EXTRAVERSION tag in the makefile has -custom making it impossible to get exactly the same compile as mandrake did .... I treid changing it BUT it still compiles into a different kernel somehow!! I dunno, maybe they don't include patches in the kernel source or something ???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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