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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a test box which has been showing some
corruption of the display from time to time.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Since it doesn't matter if I play, I thought I
would try installing the latest support for the graphics card from the nVidia
website.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The package is a self-extracting archive, which
checks for the kernel support, then eventually decides that I need to have the
specific kernel support built for my particular platform, which is
fine.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I finally installed all the headers and compiler
that it asked for, and it goes ahead and attempts to build the
package.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The attached file is a copy of the build
log.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bottom line, Build fails.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What I think I understand so far is that the
semaphore.h header file is missing, odd since I expect it as a standard header.
This causes an error in the compile.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Next, there are a couple of calls to
smp_call_function which cause compile errors because of a parameter
mismatch.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I assume, the call is to a function declared in
semaphore.h</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Since there are now three errors in total, the
installer aborts.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, I think the first big question is where is the
semaphore.h header file?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have only found an asm directory
in /usr/lib/perl5 tree.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I did find an archive file containing a semaphore.h
file. The archive is semaphore.h.0p.gz in /usr/share/man/man0p but the contained
file does not have the definition of smp_call_function.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Getting confused at this point :)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any help?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dave</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>