Hi everyone
I have just installed openSUSE 11.1 with KDE desktop (4.1), along with the ‘default kernel’, ‘kernel source’, ‘make’ & ‘gcc’ packages installed.
My PC has an old agp card (GeFORCE FX 5500 with 256 MB RAM).
I have a very slow dialup connection, so I manually downloaded the legacy driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1) for it from a friend’s place.
Then I ran the command ‘sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1) –q’ on it, when it tries to build the kernel module it reported
“Unable to build the NVIDIA kernel module. 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.”
I am posting the some of the contents of ‘/var/log/nvidia-installer.log’ below, as I can’t post it all, since it exceeds the limit of 10000 characters set by the forum.
What puzzles me most is that this same driver was installed on version 11.0 of openSUSE using the same method, & it worked fine!!
Thanking you all in advance
Emon
nvidia-installer log file ‘/var/log/nvidia-installer.log’
creation time: Fri Jan 2 08:27:36 2009
installer version: 1.0.7
option status:
license pre-accepted : false
update : false
force update : false
expert : false
uninstall : false
driver info : false
precompiled interfaces : true
no ncurses color : false
query latest version : false
OpenGL header files : true
no questions : true
silent : false
no recursion : false
no backup : false
kernel module only : false
sanity : false
add this kernel : false
no runlevel check : false
no network : false
no ABI note : false
no RPMs : false
no kernel module : false
force SELinux : default
no X server check : false
no cc version check : false
force tls : (not specified)
X install prefix : (not specified)
X library install path : (not specified)
X module install path : (not specified)
OpenGL install prefix : (not specified)
OpenGL install libdir : (not specified)
utility install prefix : (not specified)
utility install libdir : (not specified)
doc install prefix : (not specified)
kernel name : (not specified)
kernel include path : (not specified)
kernel source path : (not specified)
kernel output path : (not specified)
kernel install path : (not specified)
proc mount point : /proc
ui : (not specified)
tmpdir : /tmp
ftp mirror : ftp://download.nvidia.com
RPM file list : (not specified)
Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
→ License accepted.
→ Installing NVIDIA driver version 173.14.12.
→ 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: Yes)
ERROR: Unable to connect to download.nvidia.com (unknown host)
→ No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site;
this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for
your kernel.
→ Performing CC sanity check with CC=“cc”.
→ Performing CC version check with CC=“cc”.
→ Kernel source path: ‘/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/source’
→ Kernel output path: ‘/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/build’
→ Performing rivafb check.
→ Performing nvidiafb check.
→ Performing Xen check.
→ Cleaning kernel module build directory.
executing: ‘cd ./usr/src/nv; make clean’…
→ Building kernel module:
executing: ‘cd ./usr/src/nv; make module SYSSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-defa
ult/source SYSOUT=/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/build’…
NVIDIA: calling KBUILD…
make CC=cc KBUILD_OUTPUT=/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/build KBUILD_VERBOS
E=1 -C /lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/source SUBDIRS=/tmp/selfgz4267/NVIDIA
-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1/usr/src/nv modules
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/build
KBUILD_SRC=/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9
KBUILD_EXTMOD="/tmp/selfgz4267/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1/usr/src/nv"
-f /usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9/Makefile
modules
test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || (
echo;
echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.";
echo " include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are mis
sing.";
echo " Run ‘make oldconfig && make prepare’ on kernel src to fix it
.";
echo;
/bin/false)
I HAVE DELETED SOME LINES HERE TO SHORTEN THE MAIL
c/nv/nv.c:14:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9/include/linux/scatterlist.h: In function ‘sg_vir
t’:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9/include/linux/scatterlist.h:199: warning: pointer
of type ‘void *’ used in arithmetic
In file included from /tmp/selfgz4267/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1/usr/sr
c/nv/nv.c:14:
/tmp/selfgz4267/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv-linux.h:107:27
: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /tmp/selfgz4267/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1/usr/sr
c/nv/nv-linux.h:109,
from /tmp/selfgz4267/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1/usr/sr
c/nv/nv.c:14:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9/include/linux/highmem.h: In function ‘zero_user_
segments’:
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9/include/linux/highmem.h:138: warning: pointer of t
ype ‘void *’ used in arithmetic
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9/include/linux/highmem.h:138: warning: pointer of t
ype ‘void *’ used in arithmetic
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9/include/linux/highmem.h:138: warning: pointer of t
ype ‘void *’ used in arithmetic
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9/include/linux/highmem.h:138: warning: pointer of t
ype ‘void *’ used in arithmetic
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9/include/linux/highmem.h:141: warning: pointer of t
ype ‘void *’ used in arithmetic
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9/include/linux/highmem.h:141: warning: pointer of t
ype ‘void *’ used in arithmetic
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9/include/linux/highmem.h:141: warning: pointer of t
ype ‘void *’ used in arithmetic
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9/include/linux/highmem.h:141: warning: pointer of t
ype ‘void *’ used in arithmetic
In file included from /tmp/selfgz4267/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1/usr/sr
c/nv/nv.c:14:
/tmp/selfgz4267/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv-linux.h: In fu
nction ‘nv_execute_on_all_cpus’:
/tmp/selfgz4267/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv-linux.h:674: e
rror: too many arguments to function ‘on_each_cpu’
/tmp/selfgz4267/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c: In function
‘nv_kern_cpu_callback’:
/tmp/selfgz4267/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c:1299: error:
too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’
/tmp/selfgz4267/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c:1306: error:
too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’
make[4]: *** [/tmp/selfgz4267/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.
o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [module/tmp/selfgz4267/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1/usr/sr
c/nv] Error 2
make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
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 Welcome to NVIDIA - World Leader in Visual Computing Technologies.