Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (321 mails)

["Paul C. Leopardi" <leopardi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
Saga continues below.
Best regards

On Thursday 01 July 2004 21:45, Paul C. Leopardi wrote:
> On Thursday 01 July 2004 16:22, edward winston wrote:
> > I was having the same problems, and here is what i did "
> >
> > 1) make cloneconfig
> > 2) export MAKEFLAGS=O=/usr/src/linux-obj/$ARCH/$FLAVOR
> > 3) sh <nviddia>.run --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux
>
> Thanks for the tip. I've already done step 1).
> For step 2), I created makeflags.sh containing
>
> export MAKEFLAGS="O=/usr/src/linux-obj/`uname -i`/$1"
>
> and then ran (as root)
> . ./makeflags.sh default
>
> Step 3) then worked OK.
>
> I'll report this to nVIDIA. Steps 1) and 2) were not needed for 1.0-5332,
> with the patch from http://www.minion.de, so I don't see why they should be
> needed for 1.0-6106.
 
Thomas Hertweck sent me a private email point out that these steps have been 
needed all along, even for the 1.0-5332 from www.minion.de. The reason why I 
did not see this might be that the kernel-default package contains a 
precompiled interface.

I checked 1.0-5332 after updating my kernel-default and kernel-source to 
2.6.5-7.95. Sure enough, the nvidia-installer.log said:

-> A precompiled kernel interface for kernel '2.6.5-7.95-default' has been
   found here:
   /lib/modules/precompiled/2.6.5-7.95-default/nvidia/gfx//nv-linux.o-1.0-5332.
   pre.
   executing: 'cd ./usr/src/nv; /usr/bin/ld -d -r -o nvidia.ko 
precompiled-nv-l
   inux.o nv-kernel.o'...
-> Kernel module linked successfully.

The file 
/lib/modules/precompiled/2.6.5-7.95-default/nvidia/gfx/nv-linux.o-1.0-5332.pre
is in the file list for the package kernel-default-2.6.5-7.95.

I then read /usr/src/linux/README.SUSE and discovered a package I had not 
known about: kernel-syms. With kernel-syms installed, it is not necessary to 
use Step 1) to install 1.0-6106.

After installing kernel-syms-2.6.5-7.95, I logged in as root, changed to 
runlevel 3, changed directory to where I had downloaded the nVIDIA installer 
and
1) Ran 
. ./makeflags-SUSE.README.sh, containing the line:

export MAKEFLAGS= \
"-C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build O=/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build"

2) Ran 
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-6106-pkg2.run --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux

The install worked. 

I now believe that nVIDIA should add some relevant info about SuSE, 
kernel-syms and MAKEFLAGS to their README.txt, which is also linked from 
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_1.0-6106.html

SuSE could write an article for the Support Database, describing the problem 
and its solution.

Finally, at some stage, SuSE should take a look at changing the precompiled 
interface from 1.0-5332 to 1.0-6106, and changing the YOU download script to 
match. Probably for SuSE 9.2?