NVidia x86_64-1.0-8756 and RHEL 4

[ntropia]

Dear all,
after a lot of pain, finally I got to start the 8756 installer, the compilation run up to 100% but at the end there is the following error:
ERROR: Unable to build the NVIDIA kernel module.

Inspecting the log file I found many errors like:

include/linux/syscalls.h: At top level:
include/linux/syscalls.h:66: warning: `syscall_linkage' attribute directive
ignored
include/linux/syscalls.h:67: warning: `syscall_linkage' attribute directive
ignored
include/linux/syscalls.h:69: warning: `syscall_linkage' attribute directive
ignored
include/linux/syscalls.h:71: warning: `syscall_linkage' attribute directive
ignored
include/linux/syscalls.h:72: warning: `syscall_linkage' attribute directive
ignored
include/linux/syscalls.h:74: warning: `syscall_linkage' attribute directive
ignored
include/linux/syscalls.h:76: warning: `syscall_linkage' attribute directive
ignored
include/linux/syscalls.h:77: warning: `syscall_linkage' attribute directive
ignored
include/linux/syscalls.h:78: warning: `syscall_linkage' attribute directive
ignored
include/linux/syscalls.h:79: warning: `syscall_linkage' attribute directive
ignored
include/linux/syscalls.h:80: warning: `syscall_linkage' attribute directive
ignored
include/linux/syscalls.h:81: warning: `syscall_linkage' attribute directive
ignored
include/linux/syscalls.h:82: warning: `syscall_linkage' attribute directive
ignored


...and before the final crash:



/tmp/selfgz12940/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8756-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c:2843: warning: long long unsigned int format, u64 arg (arg 3)
/tmp/selfgz12940/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8756-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c: In funct
ion `nv_alloc_kernel_mapping':
/tmp/selfgz12940/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8756-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c:3161: err
or: `PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE' undeclared (first use in this function)
/tmp/selfgz12940/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8756-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c: In funct
ion `__nv_setup_pat_entries':
/tmp/selfgz12940/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8756-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c:912: erro
r: unknown register name `p7' in `asm'
/tmp/selfgz12940/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8756-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c:912: erro
r: unknown register name `p6' in `asm'
/tmp/selfgz12940/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8756-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c: In funct
ion `__nv_restore_pat_entries':
/tmp/selfgz12940/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8756-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c:927: erro
r: unknown register name `p7' in `asm'
/tmp/selfgz12940/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8756-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c:927: erro
r: unknown register name `p6' in `asm'


This is the n-th installation of Nvidia drivers, but honestly it's the hardest and weirdest I ever got!
Some data about that computer:

# uname -a
Linux localhost.localhost 2.6.9-34.EL #1 Fri Feb 24 16:46:41 EST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

At my opinion, there is a problem about kernel headers, but I'm not expert enoght to be shure.
If someone could help me, it would be great.
Many thanks in advance,

Stefano

[netllama]

Without seeing the full installer log, its hard to say what the exact problem is, however for RHEL4, all you need to install are the kernel & kernel-devel RPMs that Redhat provides. I'm guessing that you're trying to specify a kernel-source path to the driver, which is unneccesary.

Thanks,
Lonni