has anybody else had problems going from 4496 back to 3123?

[readme]

I'm trying to go back to the 3123 driver for GeForce4 after finding that the newer drivers are slow. But I can't compile the source rpm's anymore like I did before. Has anybody had this problem? (Output attached)

[readme]

so I reinstalled the system. Thanks for the support nvidia. I'll make sure to be more careful when updating drivers in the future.

[mtrr]

you tried to compile with glibc includes and _not_ (as noted
in the readme) using _kernel_ includes, that cannot work.

a configured kernel-source tree (or at least the includes) is/(are)
needed for a successful compile.


cheers

[readme]

Hi,
I compiled using rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.src.rpm . In the output it is indicating that it is using the kernel includes:

-I/lib/modules/2.4.18- 14smp/build/include (about 10th line from the top)

where do you see that it is using the gcc includes?

[mtrr]

here:

/usr/include/linux/tqueue.h

these are system includes.

the whole file you posted is full of these and you already
noticed, that it won't work, so....



and I think the space in
"-I/lib/modules/2.4.18- 14smp/build/include" is not really helpful.

cheers

ps: it's rather line 55 than 10

[readme]

You seem very confident. That's nice.

I'm not too familiar with kernel development, but I assume when compiling the kernel, other libraries (such as the glibs) are used in addition to the files that come with the kernel. I'm wondering where the space in the -I/lib/modules/2.4.18- 14smp/build/include came from. I'm also not familiar with rpmbuild, so I don't know where these include paths are from (I assumed they where in the rpm source file).

The rebuild of the the package did work on a freshly installed system. I didn't pass any parameters to the rpmbuild command, so the question is, what changed that cause the error.

When I installed the system the gcc3.2 driver was installed. Because I'm using a bunch of libraries that where compiled with 2.96 and I compile most things with 2.96 I linked gcc to gcc296 (instead of gcc320 ) and cc was linked to gcc. Therefore the compiler was using gcc296 to compile and as a result the references didn't work. So, the problem wasn't with including gcc instead of kernel headers.

Anyways, it's nice to know, now that I don't need it anymore. But, to let nvidia off the hook, it wasn't the new drivers that screwed something up ... it was me :-). But it would still be nice if the new drivers where faster .... not slower.

Cheers