On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Margaret_Doll wrote: > I tried following the instructions from Jesse Keating and Roger for the > installation of the NVIDIA drivers for my Dell station (Intel > processor) which is now running at 2.4.18-17.8.0 > > Both the rebuild and the make failed. I have attached text files > containing the problems with both attempts to install the drivers. I > have a "production" computer without graphics. > > The make ended in > > /usr/include/linux/highmem.h: At top level: > nv.c:155: storage size of `nv_fops' isn't known > nv.c:1037: storage size of `nv_vm_ops' isn't known > make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 > [root@samuel NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123]# exit > > > > The rebuild ended in > > nv.c:2929: parse error before ')' token^M > /usr/include/linux/highmem.h: At top level:^M > nv.c:155: storage size of `nv_fops' isn't known^M > nv.c:1037: storage size of `nv_vm_ops' isn't known^M > make: *** [nv.o] Error 1^M > > Be sure that you've got a clean install of the kernel source. You should then be able to run the rebuild command on the NVIDIA_kernel src file. You don't need to rebuild the GLX file. You can just install the rpm from the NVIDIA website.
-- Gerry "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer
