nvidia driver will not compile.

[sjoeboo]

this is my situation: i am running fedora core 2 test 2. i have previously got the nvidia driver to work fine, by recompiling my own kernel, with the apropriate configs set, and then jsut doing a regular install of the driver. however, this time, on kernel 2.6.5, the compile of the driver fails. this is my error log as generated by the installer program:

nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Wed Apr 14 21:23:54 2004

option status:
license pre-accepted : false
update : false
force update : false
expert : false
uninstall : false
driver info : false
no precompiled interface: false
no ncurses color : false
query latest driver ver : false
OpenGL header files : false
no questions : false
silent : false
XFree86 install prefix : /usr/X11R6
OpenGL install prefix : /usr
Installer install prefix: /usr
kernel source path : (not specified)
kernel install path : (not specified)
proc mount point : /proc
ui : (not specified)
tmpdir : /tmp
ftp site : ftp://download.nvidia.com

Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> License accepted.
-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li
ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f
rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: No)
-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; this means
that the installer will need to compile a new kernel interface.
-> Kernel source path: '/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.322custom/build'
-> Performing cc_version_check with CC="cc".
-> Cleaning kernel module build directory.
executing: 'cd ./usr/src/nv; make clean'...
rm -f -f nv.o os-agp.o os-interface.o os-registry.o nv.o os-agp.o os-interfa
ce.o os-registry.o nvidia.mod.o
rm -f -f build-in.o nv-linux.o *.d .*.{cmd,flags}
rm -f -f nvidia.{o,ko,mod.{o,c}} nv_compiler.h *~
-> Building kernel module:
executing: 'cd ./usr/src/nv; make module SYSSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.322cust
om/build'...
echo \#define NV_COMPILER \"`cc -v 2>&1 | tail -n 1`\" > /tmp/selfgz2607/NVI
DIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv_compiler.h
CC [M] /tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.o
In file included from include/linux/list.h:7,
from include/linux/wait.h:14,
from include/asm/semaphore.h:41,
from include/linux/sched.h:18,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from /tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src
/nv/nv-linux.h:52,
from /tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src
/nv/nv.c:14:
include/linux/prefetch.h: In function `prefetch_range':
include/linux/prefetch.h:62: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in arith
metic
/tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c: In function
`nvos_malloc_pages':
/tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c:385: warning:
use of cast expressions as lvalues is deprecated
/tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c: In function
`nvos_create_alloc':
/tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c:513: warning:
use of cast expressions as lvalues is deprecated
/tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c:523: warning:
use of cast expressions as lvalues is deprecated
/tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c: At top level
:
/tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c:1185: warning
: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c: In function
`nv_alloc_file_private':
/tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c:1193: warning
: use of cast expressions as lvalues is deprecated
/tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c:1204: warning
: use of cast expressions as lvalues is deprecated
/tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c: In function
`nv_kern_open':
/tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c:1265: warning
: use of cast expressions as lvalues is deprecated
/tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c: In function
`nv_kern_ctl_open':
/tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c:1914: warning
: use of cast expressions as lvalues is deprecated
CC [M] /tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/os-agp.o
In file included from include/linux/list.h:7,
from include/linux/wait.h:14,
from include/asm/semaphore.h:41,
from include/linux/sched.h:18,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from /tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src
/nv/nv-linux.h:52,
from /tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src
/nv/os-agp.c:24:
include/linux/prefetch.h: In function `prefetch_range':
include/linux/prefetch.h:62: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in arith
metic
CC [M] /tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/os-inter
face.o
In file included from include/linux/list.h:7,
from include/linux/wait.h:14,
from include/asm/semaphore.h:41,
from include/linux/sched.h:18,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from /tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src
/nv/nv-linux.h:52,
from /tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src
/nv/os-interface.c:26:
include/linux/prefetch.h: In function `prefetch_range':
include/linux/prefetch.h:62: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in arith
metic
/tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/os-interface.c: In
function `os_alloc_contig_pages':
/tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/os-interface.c:292
: warning: use of cast expressions as lvalues is deprecated
/tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/os-interface.c: In
function `save_wb':
/tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/os-interface.c:748
: warning: use of cast expressions as lvalues is deprecated
CC [M] /tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/os-regis
try.o
In file included from include/linux/list.h:7,
from include/linux/wait.h:14,
from include/asm/semaphore.h:41,
from include/linux/sched.h:18,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from /tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src
/nv/nv-linux.h:52,
from /tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src
/nv/os-registry.c:14:
include/linux/prefetch.h: In function `prefetch_range':
include/linux/prefetch.h:62: warning: pointer of type `void *' used in arith
metic
LD [M] /tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nvidia.o
/bin/sh: line 1: /tmp/selfgz2607/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv/.
tmp_versions/nvidia.mod: No such file or directory
Building modules, stage 2.
nvidia.ko failed to build!
make[1]: *** [module] Error 1
make: *** [module] Error 2
-> Error.
ERROR: Unable to build the NVIDIA kernel module.
ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file
'/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions
on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux
driver download page at www.nvidia.com.


any anyone can make any sugestions as to some package i might have missing or some kernel option/module i miseed, please get back to me asap. thank you.

[whig]

If you are going from kernel 2.4 to 2.6 you need the package module-init-tools (but I would think this is in Fedora). Did the kernel compile go OK, install and run fine? Try older nVidia drivers too.

[zander]

This looks like a KBUILD problem (introduced in 2.6.5?) that has recently been fixed (see LKML).

[sjoeboo]

can you give me any more information on this LKML ? thanks.

[sjoeboo]

oops, ha, my bad, just though about the acronym

[pschaff]

If you haven't found it yet, check the "Nvidia 5336 driver with Fedora Core 2" thread.

Phil