nvidia and severn2 -- an alternative

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Sun Oct 5 08:32:41 UTC 2003


On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Elton Woo wrote:

> On October 4, 2003 04:03 pm, Robert P. J. Day <"Robert P. J. Day" 
> <rpjday at mindspring.com>> wrote:
> >   rather than messing with CC=gcc32 or IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH, here's an
> > alternative way of installing your nvidia drivers (at least, it works for
> > me, so i'm open to corrections/clarifications).
> >
> >   download the latest nvidia driver from www.nvidia.com,
> > NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run.  don't try to install it, just extract
> > it into a directory with:
> >
> >   $ sh NV...run --extract-only
> >
> > now, as root, "cd" into that directory and just run "make install".  that
> > should build the driver and install it. because you're actually compiling
> > the driver, you're pretty likely to not have to worry about any compiler
> > mismatches.


>  ... not ss fast!!  ... I *still* get this with the default Fedora Core
> kernel-2.4.22-1.2061.nptl  --->
> 
> ]# make install
> cd usr/src/nv; make install
> make[1]: Entering directory 
> `/home/abe/INSTALL/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2/usr/src/nv'
>                                                             
> You appear to be compiling the NVIDIA kernel module with
> a compiler different from the one that was used to compile
> the running kernel. This may be perfectly fine, but there
> are cases where this can lead to unexpected behaviour and
> system crashes.

oh, darn, you're right.  i haven't seen that message in a while
since i'm constantly updating 2.6.0 kernels so that my current
kernel is *always* in sync with my installed gcc.  rats.

ok, so my trick is still good for working with the 2.6.0 kernel.
argh.

rday





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