On Tuesday 10 June 2008 20:18:45 [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.
Worked fine. Actually, the kernel used 4.2 (the module I looked at, probably no longer relevant, said 4.1). All's well. I have nine (count 'em) gcc-'s from 2.95 to 4.3. Do I need all of these? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
