Driver fails to compile with gcc 4.6.0 on kernel 2.6.39-git11/-git12

[RUSTY]

Originally Posted by gun26

Sorry if the patch is giving people problems. I diffed in the kernel directory because the PKGBUILD (a.k.a. build script) for my Arch distro changes to that directory to compile the Nvidia module. It doesn't directly use the Nvidia installer.

For those using the Nvidia installer, here are step by step instructions, assuming both NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-270.41.19.run (or whatever version you're using - sub in the right name if necessary in the instructions) and kernel-3.0-rc1.patch.txt are in your home directory, and that you use sudo to run the Nvidia installer:

$ sh .NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-270.41.19.run --extract-only
$ cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-270.41.19.run/kernel
$ cat ../../kernel-3.0-rc1.patch.txt | patch -p0
$ cd ..
$ sudo ./nvidia-installer

I just tried it and still get the same message I posted above.

[gun26]

Rusty, when you apply the patch are you seeing output from the patch program? It should respond like this when you apply the patch:

patching file conftest.h
patching file nv-linux.h

Assuming the patch is being applied properly (you could also try editing conftest.h and nv-linux.h from the posts above - it's a change to one line for each file - just to be sure) there must be something else going on. What distro are you on, and how did you build and install your kernel? The sources should be available and there should be a link called /lib/modules/<whatever-the-version-is>/build that points to the source directory.

[RUSTY]

sorry for delay.
I run ubuntu 10.10 x64. when patching the same message came up "patching file conftest.h
patching file nv-linux.h" so I guess it patched those files. I didn't check those files. Where would I insert those lines and should they substitute some other ones ?
I used kernelcheck to compile my kernel and headers.

[Dizzle7677]

Anyone have any luck installing the 275* or 280* drivers with Linux 3.0? Personally it still doesn't install even though it looks the newer drivers provide support for compiling against 3.0 when looking at the nv-linux.h.

[siddly]

Originally Posted by Dizzle7677

Anyone have any luck installing the 275* or 280* drivers with Linux 3.0? Personally it still doesn't install even though it looks the newer drivers provide support for compiling against 3.0 when looking at the nv-linux.h.

Sure, no problem with 3.0-rc kernels or the new 3.0 kernel.
# uname -r
3.0.0-smp
# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 280.04 Fri Jun 24 10:26:51 PDT 2011
GCC version: gcc version 4.6.1 20110701 [gcc-4_6-branch revision 175746] (SUSE Linux)

What's the error?

[Dizzle7677]

Well here's my nvidia-installer.log which probably doesn't provide much info. /build and /source both point to the linux-headers in /usr/src.

[siddly]

I can't remember which was the last 275 and with what kernel I used as that was some time ago.
With a 3.0 kernel try 280.04 or 280.11 which I am now running.
# uname -r
3.0.0-git2-smp
# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 280.11 Thu Jul 21 13:54:36 PDT 2011
GCC version: gcc version 4.6.1 20110701 [gcc-4_6-branch revision 175746] (SUSE Linux)

[Dizzle7677]

It would be nice if there was a verbose option in the installer to see what was going on and why it bombs out.

[siddly]

There have been 3 releases since 275.19 and they all work. Certainly 280.04 and 280.11 work with 3.0 kernels.

[Dizzle7677]

Originally Posted by siddly

There have been 3 releases since 275.19 and they all work. Certainly 280.04 and 280.11 work with 3.0 kernels.

They work for you personally. If I can't build the kernel module in an Ubuntu/Debian system then there is a problem somewhere either in my personal custom built kernel or how it interacts with the headers,etc. This is what I'd like to get more information about in the log file. Are they listening?

[weltall]

It works here with ubuntu/debian and using vanilla kernels builds with make-kpkg (installed headers/image and avoided deleting the source folder which was used to build it) using 280.* series you might give a try to this solution. Personally I'd start by trying 280.x even though by checking driver sources it seems the required patches are in place for the current stable.

[RUSTY]

Originally Posted by weltall

It works here with ubuntu/debian and using vanilla kernels builds with make-kpkg (installed headers/image and avoided deleting the source folder which was used to build it) using 280.* series you might give a try to this solution. Personally I'd start by trying 280.x even though by checking driver sources it seems the required patches are in place for the current stable.

is there a way to delete the source folder later and still be able to install nvidia driver ?