Quadro FX770m Suse 11.1 64bit

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#1

Hi All,

I am trying to install Suse 11.1 and use my Quadro card, i downloaded the latest installer from the Nvidia site, it checks FTP to see if a package is available and then tries to compile. After a few seconds it throws an error and says to look at the /var/log/nvidia-installer.log. The log contains the following

/tmp/selfgz15081/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.12-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c:1296: wa
rning: comparison between signed and unsigned
/tmp/selfgz15081/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.12-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c:1299: er
ror: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’
/tmp/selfgz15081/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.12-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c:1303: wa
rning: comparison between signed and unsigned
/tmp/selfgz15081/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.12-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c:1306: er
ror: too many arguments to function ‘smp_call_function’
make[4]: *** [/tmp/selfgz15081/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.12-pkg2/usr/src/nv
/nv.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [module/tmp/selfgz15081/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.12-pkg2/us
r/src/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.

Can anyone help me with the next steps.

#2

Hi
Can you check your pci id against the supported cards as one of the
newer ones may work better;


echo -n "0x" && /sbin/lspci -nv |grep VGA|cut -f4 -d ":"|cut -f1 -d "("

From the above output use the numbers from the output to look at the
Supported Products List (link on the left) to verify your card is
supported by the driver at the following link.

Nvidia Unix Drivers

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.1 x86 Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default
up 2:10, 4 users, load average: 2.00, 1.00, 0.54
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 180.22

#3

Hi Malcolm,

Yes its in the list

Quadro FX 770M 0x065C

Is there a way of forcing the driver to compile or ignore errors

Or should i try an older driver?

#4

Hi
Download the 180.22 driver and use that rather than the 173.14.12 one.
Make sure you have the kernel-syms and linux-kernel-headers installed
as well.

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.1 x86 Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default
up 0:40, 1 user, load average: 0.95, 0.62, 0.62
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 180.22

#5

That worked,

Thanks loads Malcolm