Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 11:21:56AM -0500, John Mitchell wrote: > Let me ask a stupid question, when you installed your running kernel's > corrisponding kernel-source package did you untar/bz2 it? If not then you > need to do that, cd into kernel-source-2.x.xx and run make oldconfig && make > de

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 08:40:56AM -0600, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > tar xfv /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-src.tar > > then perform the symbolic link: > > ln -s /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-src /usr/src/linux > > do all as root. No! /usr/src/linux is the kernel source. If you're using the Debian distro of

Re: Nvidia compile error [SOLVED]

2003-01-02 Thread Elijah
> I'm glad you got it working! > > The above doesn't make sense to me. If you compiled your kernel you have > your kernel headers. /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-src/README.Debian.gz > describes this. > > If you look at the Nvidia tarball file NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191/Makefile it > uses > > KERN

Re: Nvidia compile error [SOLVED]

2003-01-02 Thread Bill Moseley
On 3 Jan 2003, Elijah wrote: > It took me awhile to download new modutils, binutils, 2.4.20 kernel > sources, etc. etc. .compile etc .. .. none worked for me. > > Then I searched all over forums, /usr/share/docs/, sites, etc. and found > a suggestion to use the kernel-headers. I downloaded the >

Re: Nvidia compile error [SOLVED]

2003-01-02 Thread Elijah
Hi! It took me awhile to download new modutils, binutils, 2.4.20 kernel sources, etc. etc. .compile etc .. .. none worked for me. Then I searched all over forums, /usr/share/docs/, sites, etc. and found a suggestion to use the kernel-headers. I downloaded the kernel-headers.2.4.18.deb, untarre

Re: Nvidia compile error [SOLVED]

2003-01-02 Thread Elijah
Hi! It took me awhile to download new modutils, binutils, 2.4.20 kernel sources, etc. etc. .compile etc .. .. none worked for me. Then I searched all over forums, /usr/share/docs/, sites, etc. and found a suggestion to use the kernel-headers. I downloaded the kernel-headers.2.4.18.deb, untarred

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-01 Thread John Mitchell
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 12:45 pm, Elijah wrote: > Update: > Ok, I've installed the kernel in /usr/src/ untarred them then do: > make oldconfig && make dep && make-kpkg modules > I then went back to my nvidia drivers and got another error, at least > it's different this time: >

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-01 Thread Elijah
Update: Ok, I've installed the kernel in /usr/src/ untarred them then do: make oldconfig && make dep && make-kpkg modules I then went back to my nvidia drivers and got another error, at least it's different this time: - depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-01 Thread Elijah
> Let me ask a stupid question, when you installed your running kernel's > corrisponding kernel-source package did you untar/bz2 it? If not then you > need to do that, cd into kernel-source-2.x.xx and run make oldconfig && make > dep. > > After that you should be able, from that directory, do

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-01 Thread John Mitchell
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 10:21 am, Elijah wrote: > ok, I untar the package (tar -xzpvf nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz) and from > it unpacked the directory 'modules>nvidia-kernel-version>debian>' > so I typed in make-kpkg from /usr/src/ - didn't work, I went to the > modules directory, the nvidia-ker

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-01 Thread Elijah
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 00:09, John Mitchell wrote: > Untar nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz > cd to your kernel source > and run make-kpkg modules > then install the resulting deb. ok, I untar the package (tar -xzpvf nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz) and from it unpacked the directory 'modules>nvidia-kernel-versi

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-01 Thread John Mitchell
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 07:13 am, Elijah wrote: > I've tried it: > make SYSLINUX=/usr/src/nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz > > also: > make SYSLINUX=/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel-1.0.2880/debian/ > > > both didn't work :( , also making a symlink from > /usr/src/kernel-source- to /usr/src/linux is not

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-01 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Elijah wrote: I've tried it: make SYSLINUX=/usr/src/nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz also: make SYSLINUX=/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel-1.0.2880/debian/ both didn't work :( , also making a symlink from /usr/src/kernel-source- to /usr/src/linux is not possible because I don't have a 'linux' directory t

Re: Nvidia compile error

2003-01-01 Thread Elijah
I've tried it: make SYSLINUX=/usr/src/nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz also: make SYSLINUX=/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel-1.0.2880/debian/ both didn't work :( , also making a symlink from /usr/src/kernel-source- to /usr/src/linux is not possible because I don't have a 'linux' directory there ...

Re: Nvidia compile error

2002-12-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 04:13:41AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Have you run 'make dep' in your kernel tree? Have you pointed the nvidia > source tarball at the correct place for your kernel tree? If you're using the debian sources, you'll have to make a symlink from /usr/src/kernel-source- to /us

Re: Nvidia compile error

2002-12-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 12:11:33PM +0900, Elijah wrote: > My nvidia drivers are not installing. I downloaded the source tarballs > from the nvidia site, md5sum check them and do 'make install' or 'make' > and got this error: > > > In file included from nv.c:14:

Nvidia compile error

2002-12-31 Thread Elijah
My nvidia drivers are not installing. I downloaded the source tarballs from the nvidia site, md5sum check them and do 'make install' or 'make' and got this error: In file included from nv.c:14: nv-linux.h:24 linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory make: