F8 & Freshrpms nvidia-x11-drv-96xx problem

[Richard Shaw]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 1.0.9639 is rather old, and isn't supported any longer.  If this is
> the latest that freshrpms is giving out, then they're out of date, and
> you need to go elsewhere.
>
> On 12/1/07, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I just updated my FC6 server to F8 (replaced not upgraded) and installed
>> the nvidia-x11-drv-96xx driver from Freshrpms which has always worked
>> before and is working right now on my desktop. Both systems are running
>> the 64bit version of Fedora. Below is the make.log file from  DKMS:
>>
>>     
>>> DKMS make.log for nvidia-1.0.9639-1 for kernel 2.6.23.1-49.fc8 (x86_64)
>>> Sat Dec  1 09:30:13 GMT-6 2007
>>>
>>> NVIDIA: calling KBUILD...
>>> make CC=cc  KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 -C /lib/modules/2.6.23.1-49.fc8/build
>>> SUBDIRS=/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build modules
>>> test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf ||
>>> (            \
>>>         echo;                                                           \
>>>         echo "  ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.";               \
>>>         echo "         include/linux/autoconf.h or
>>> include/config/auto.conf are missing.";      \
>>>         echo "         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel
>>> src to fix it.";  \
>>>         echo;                                                           \
>>>         /bin/false)
>>> mkdir -p /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/.tmp_versions
>>> rm -f /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/.tmp_versions/*
>>> make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build
>>> cp /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/nv-kernel.o
>>> /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/nv-kernel.o
>>> cp: cannot stat `/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/nv-kernel.o':
>>> No such file or directory
>>> make[3]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/nv-kernel.o] Error 1
>>> make[2]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build] Error 2
>>> NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
>>> nvidia.ko failed to build!
>>> make[1]: *** [module] Error 1
>>> make: *** [module] Error 2
>>>       
>> I've never looked at this file before so I don't know what I'm supposed
>> to see but the "cp" command looks funny as it appears to be trying to
>> copy a file onto itself. The module obviously fails to build and X fails
>> to run.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Richard
>>     
Sorry, should have said I've got an old Geforce 4 MX card which is not 
supported in the newer versions...

Thanks,
Richard