On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:51:49 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have nvidia's "proprietary" dirver 96.43.01 running well on my > Debian Sid. There is a bug in the opengl which will show up, for > example, rotating a piece in a jigsaw puzzle program, where areas > near the cursor are incorrectly painted. Their driver is up to > version .05 so I tried to install. > > Their .run complained about the gcc version. I noticed the > kernel-compiled .ko's will show a 4.1.3. Now I compiled that kernel > much more recently than that!! Going ahead with the current 4.3.2!! > will produce and un-modprobable nvidia.ko. No --force option will > avail. > > Their instructions say set a CC environment variable. Anything I try > will then produce a complain that this "compiler" cannot produce > execs. I tried 4.1.3, gcc4.1.3, gcc-4.1.3 and such variations of the > current version to no avail. > > Since the kernel compile chose this older version, recompiling clean > will probably not help. What do I do to kludge this (I have sometimes > succeeded in editing vermagic stuff if the result had exactly the > same length but the gcc is not in this string.) > The following helped me: # cd /usr/bin # rm gcc # ln -s gcc-4.1 gcc After compiling the kernel module, you can redo the steps above with gcc-4.3, or you can leave it this way. -- Nyizsa. http://nyizsa.uni.cc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get a free email address with REAL anti-spam protection. http://www.bluebottle.com/tag/1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
