On 24/03/12 16:28, Larry Finger wrote:

On 03/24/2012 12:14 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:

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But who creates the kernel headers? And who compiles the kernel itself?

Most of the kernel headers come with the Linux source code, but others are generated when the kernel is built. Those are supplied by openSUSE. It is Nvidia's script that fails to find those generated headers. It was my fault that the original patch worked for a self-generated kernel, but not for the openSUSE supplied one.

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Someone mentioned here a few days ago that nVidia were aware of the problem quite a while back and before 3.3 was actually made available. Considering that nVidia in now gone all luvey-duvey re Linux how could they have totally stuffed up even their latest 295.33 released yesterday? The mind boggles...... :-) .

They should have fixed the problems when 3.3-rc1 was released, but that is common for them to be behind. Vmware is another one that is frequently behind the curve. Obviously, their priority is not in keeping up with the latest kernels. I have pushed patches to fix the compilation of the VirtualBox kernel module only to be told on their developer forum that the patch is already in their SVN database.

Larry

Thanks Larry. Now I know how things are done. BC -- Wife sent me to the doctor to get the pills for me to have an erection. When I came back I gave her the packet of slimming pills. I am still looking for somewhere to live. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

On 24/03/12 16:35, Greg KH wrote: [pruned]

Again, you have been warned, using the nvidia closed source drivers, you are on your own. The only group/people you are allowed to complain to is nvidia themselves, why you are getting upset at us is totally unknown.

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Again, you are on your own, the fact that Larry keeps helping you is beyond amazing, you owe him a few beers at the least.

greg k-h

Thank you, Greg, for your comments. However, you obviously have not been following the threads in this factory list so allow me to review what has occurred prior to your comments. On 17 March I posted a message with the subject, "Milestone #2" which said that the nVidia driver (295.20) could not be installed. Christoph Obexer responder with an URL which provided a patch for the nVidia driver. Then on 18 March Lars Muller posted a message with subject, "Nvidia driver requires a patch to compile (was Milestone #2)" to which Stefan Dirsch responded stating, "Fixed since more than a week ago." On 22 March Patrick Shanahan wrote, "Tumbleweed 3.3.0-16.1 kernel does not allow install of nvidia driver" - that is he wrote this in *THIS* thread. Larry responded on the same day and provided a URL for the patch which Larry wrote to overcome the problem. Seeing as how what Patrick mentioned re Tumbleweed was identical to what I (and obviously others) struck in Milestone #2 the "conversation" shifted from my original post and Lars's post to this thread. Are you with me so far? Excellent. And not only I but many others owe Larry "a few beers" - but you'll be lucky to get a glass of water :-) . BC -- Wife sent me to the doctor to get the pills for me to have an erection. When I came back I gave her the packet of slimming pills. I am still looking for somewhere to live. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:38:28 +0100 Mike Galbraith wrote:

On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 17:33 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:

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And not only I but many others owe Larry "a few beers" - but you'll be lucky to get a glass of water :-) .

Good. If everyone who owed Greg a few beers for his contributions paid up, he'd be a perma-blittered wreck.

Mike, it is just matter of focus. Focused on problem at hand, people forget all of usb and bunch of other drivers that just work and Greg's part in that. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

On 24/03/12 18:38, Mike Galbraith wrote:

On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 17:33 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:

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And not only I but many others owe Larry "a few beers" - but you'll be lucky to get a glass of water :-) . Good. If everyone who owed Greg a few beers for his contributions paid up, he'd be a perma-blittered wreck.

-Mike

Which is why I didn't offer him a beer or two or three - his contribution is important and he must, therefore, be always "bright-eyed and bushy-tailed" :-) . (Did the smiley at the end of my post show up at your end? I have found that Thunderbird doesn't always insert an emoticon when it is inserted in text.) BC -- The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Niccolo Machiavelli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org