On Thursday 25 March 2004 17:46, Karthik Vishwanath wrote: > I tried adding/removing spaces from the Makefile and I still cannot get > 'sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run' to function alright. I did > download NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run from nvidia's website and have > not installed the Debian package nvidia-kernel-source. > > 'uname -r' gives 2.4.18-k7. The Makefile in /usr/src/linux at its top > reads: > > VERSION = 2 > PATCHLEVEL = 4 > SUBLEVEL = 18 > EXTRAVERSION =-k7
I said; EXTRAVERSION = -k7 i meant it. A question to you, did you do; make oldconfig make dep like i suggested, ???? The above does not mean you need to do the rest of a kernel compile ie, make bzImage modules modules_install etc etc, you need to configure the source thats all. Files get created by make oldconfig and make dep which the nvidia installer gets information from. > I have attached the nvidia-installer.log as an attachment (as its about > ~2K). I could'nt spot anything significant in that log -- perhaps my eyes > are unfamiliar wrt to what to seek... > > I did not follow Richards suggestion below since the untarring of the > zipped source did create /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/. If you do not follow what i wrote then you will have problems period. You can however ensure that /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 has a symlink called linux pointing to it, or use the installers options to define where the source is, whichever way you choose you MUST reconfigure the kernel source and edit the makefile otheriwse it WILL NOT WORK. About your directory /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 if thats what you got when unpacking the source then it looks like you dont have the "offical" kernel source available from kernel.org as that i can assure you the offical source of 2.4.18 creates a directory called linux-2.4.18 and i cannot stress it enough but to say period. Ray suggested to fall back on an older driver, i do not suggest that at all as i have 5336 running here on a slackware 9 system and a suse 9 system. Like i mentioned before there are some issues with the driver itself in the way it works, BUT there are issues with all nvidia's drivers, just because i said there are issues with tis driver "here" does NOT mean you will have problems. As i said before and i repeat, if you follow my instrutions then it will work i can assure you. You MUST assure that the installer can find the kernel source AND that the kernel source is configured with the SAME options your running kernel has, thats it really. If only you was next door i would come and show you how to do it there is no secret. After all if you read; ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-5336/README You will see that my examples are written there, they are not there for the duration, they are there to help you. It even states that you need to have the source installed, make sure the installer knows where they are AND that the sources have been configured peropery by; coping the config file of your running kernel to /usr/src/linux or the place where you tell the installer they are and that you have configured the sources with make oldconfig and make dep, if you dont do that your buggered period. > -K > > On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, at 8:28am, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > At 05:15 PM 3/25/2004 +0100, pa3gcu wrote: > > >No No No, /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/ is NOT what you want i can > > > assure you. > > > > > >When you untarred the source a directory called linux-2.4.18 should have > > > been created you then need to create a symlink to "linux" for my > > > example underneat, so lets start again. > > > > Actually, Richard, this is just a Debian naming convention that you are > > unfamiliar with. Here, for example, is a relevant portion of my /usr/src > > directory: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/src > > [...] > > drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Mar 4 10:59 > > kernel-source-2.4.19 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25652223 Dec 5 > > 15:59 > > kernel-source-2.4.19.tar.bz2 > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src 20 Aug 19 2002 linux -> > > kernel-source-2.4.19 > > > > In Debian when you un'tar (for example) kernel-source-2.4.19.tar.bz2 you > > get a directory tree named kernel-source-2.4.19, NOT one named > > linux-2.4.19. > > > > I'm so used to this convention that I'd quite forgotten that other > > distros don't follow it. -- If the Linux community is a bunch of theives because they try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows community is built on organized crime. Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
