Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (761 mails)

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/05/2012 10:50 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  [04-05-12 21:08]:
> > Nvidia got some of the necessary patches needed to build under kernel 3.3,
> > but not all. You can get what you need from
> > http://www.lwfinger.com/nvidia_patches. Those patches are designed to be
> > applied to the extracted Nvidia material from a 'sn ./NVIDIA.....run -x". If
> > you want to use Nvidia's mechanism to patch the .run file, then you need to
> > remove the first directory entry in the patch control lines. For example,
> > "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.33.orig/kernel/conftest.sh" goes to
> > "kernel.orig/conftest.sh", etc.
>
> changed nvidia_295_33_for_3.3_err
>
> Index: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.33/kernel/conftest.sh
> ===================================================================
> --- NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.33.orig/kernel/conftest.sh
> +++ NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.33/kernel/conftest.sh
>
>
> to:
>
> Index: kernel/conftest.sh
> ===================================================================
> --- kernel.orig/conftest.sh
> +++ kernel/conftest.sh
>
>
> got:
>
> # patch ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.33.run ./nvidia_295_33_for_3.3_err
> patching file ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.33.run
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 95.
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 126.
> Hunk #3 FAILED at 965.
> Hunk #4 FAILED at 980.
> Hunk #5 FAILED at 996.
> Hunk #6 FAILED at 1604.
> 6 out of 6 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
>     ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.33.run.rej
>
>
> remember, I am *not* a programmer
> and "man patch" does not provide a hint I recognize.

After you edited the file, then you needed to

sh ./NVIDIA....run --apply-patch nvidia_295_33_for_3.3_err

That command patches the .run file. In the original form, the patch file 
modifies conftest.sh AFTER it is extracted.

Larry
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