nvidia drivers with kernel 2.6.6 howto (resolved)

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06-13-2004, 03:40 AM
Yakumo

nvidia drivers with kernel 2.6.6 howto (resolved)

Installed lernel-source-2.6.6 and kernel-headers-2.6.6-1 386 using kpackage. (edited from gozar's helpfull post)

cd /usr/src
tar xjf kernel kernel-source-2.6.6.tar.bz2
rm linux
ln -s kernel-source-2.6.6 linux
cd linux
mrproper (command not recognised Gozar?)

cp /boot/config-2.6.6 ./.config
export CC=gcc-2.95

make

(**** help, i thoghut copying the knoppix kernal config would mean all questions would have been settup as per the orriginal knoppix kernel copile, but no, it asks ....

486 emulation (X86_EMU486) ?
Local APIC support on uniprcessors (X86_UP_APIC)?
IO-APIC support on uniprocessors (X86_UP_IOAPIC) ?
SCSI media changer support (CHR_DEV_SCH)?
Enable /dev/psaux device by default (INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX_ENABLE)?

everything else has been answered by the script, i answered yes to the questions it still asks above, but i would like to know how the knoppix kernel was compiled exactly.

Download Nvidia driver from http://www.sh.nu/download/nvidia/
(2.6 kernel drives now in root of this page, older drivers in sub dirs)
/etc/init.d/kdm stop

export SYSSRC=/usr/src/linux

cd to where you downloaded the nvidia driver
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run

*** here's the flaw

nvidia : version magic '2.6.6 preempt 386 gcc-2.95' should be '2.6.6 SMP preempt 386 gcc-2.95'

stops compiling..

(thinks... checks) right, i'd forgotten that i HAD seen SMP packages on kpackage to download but ignored them as id don't run SMP here....

arg... double checked kpackage, the SMP sources are seperate packages entirely, ! but the 2.6.6-386-SMP packages aren't there! :o(

help ?
06-13-2004, 10:54 AM
kelmo

Try linking /usr/src/linux to the full kernel source tree and not the headers.
06-13-2004, 12:35 PM
Yakumo

Quote:

Originally Posted by kelmo

Try linking /usr/src/linux to the full kernel source tree and not the headers.

erm i did 'ln -s kernel-source-2.6.6 linux' which is the 34.8mb bz2 uncompressed, it wasn't linked to the headers.

the kernel compiles fine, it's just the wrong version (non SMP) , so the nvidia driver wont compile..
06-13-2004, 08:36 PM
Gozar

Re: nvidia drivers with kernel 2.6.6 partial howto (needshel

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yakumo

Installed lernel-source-2.6.6 and kernel-headers-2.6.6-1 386 using kpackage. (edited from gozar's helpfull post)

cd /usr/src
tar xjf kernel kernel-source-2.6.6.tar.bz2
rm linux
ln -s kernel-source-2.6.6 linux
cd linux
mrproper (command not recognised Gozar?)

That's: make mrproper

Quote:

cp /boot/config-2.6.6cp / ./.config
export CC=gcc-2.95

try cat /proc/version
This should tell witch gcc version tha's uset to compile kernel 2.6.6

[quote]
make

(**** help, i thoghut copying the knoppix kernal config would mean all questions would have been settup as per the orriginal knoppix kernel copile, but no, it asks ....

[/quite]
Are you sure you copyed the right kernel config?

Quote:

486 emulation (X86_EMU486) ?
Local APIC support on uniprcessors (X86_UP_APIC)?
IO-APIC support on uniprocessors (X86_UP_IOAPIC) ?
SCSI media changer support (CHR_DEV_SCH)?
Enable /dev/psaux device by default (INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX_ENABLE)?

everything else has been answered by the script, i answered yes to the questions it still asks above, but i would like to know how the knoppix kernel was compiled exactly.

Download Nvidia driver from http://www.sh.nu/download/nvidia/
(2.6 kernel drives now in root of this page, older drivers in sub dirs)
/etc/init.d/kdm stop

export SYSSRC=/usr/src/linux

cd to where you downloaded the nvidia driver
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run

*** here's the flaw

nvidia : version magic '2.6.6 preempt 386 gcc-2.95' should be '2.6.6 SMP preempt 386 gcc-2.95'

stops compiling..

(thinks... checks) right, i'd forgotten that i HAD seen SMP packages on kpackage to download but ignored them as id don't run SMP here....

arg... double checked kpackage, the SMP sources are seperate packages entirely, ! but the 2.6.6-386-SMP packages aren't there! :o(

help ?

run make menuconfig
before you run make and enable smp

If i could get my hands in the 2.6.6 config file, maby i could take a look at it!

Sincerley
Gozar
06-14-2004, 12:00 AM
Yakumo

Re: nvidia drivers with kernel 2.6.6 partial howto (needshel

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gozar

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yakumo

cp /boot/config-2.6.6cp / ./.config
export CC=gcc-2.95

try cat /proc/version
This should tell witch gcc version tha's uset to compile kernel 2.6.6
Are you sure you copyed the right kernel config?

the gcc version (2.95) is correct, i'd learnt which versio from an error message when i'd first tried to compile it.

the config cp was abit of a typo, i've corrected it to 'cp /boot/config-2.6.6 ./.config'

and it is the correct config, the only other one there is "config-2.4.26"

Quote:

If i could get my hands in the 2.6.6 config file, maby i could take a look at it!

i'll try send it to you in a PM. i'll try your other suggestions in the morning thoguh as i can't leave the machine on overnight, it keeps me awake, and it takes a good hour or two to compile..

thanks for your help, i'm very new to linux as you must have guessed :)
06-14-2004, 12:33 AM
Yakumo

Re: nvidia drivers with kernel 2.6.6 partial howto (needshel

problem.... :

Code:

make menuconfig HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep In file included from /usr/include/sys/socket.h:35, from /usr/include/netinet/in.h:24, from scripts/basic/fixdep.c:107: /usr/include/bits/socket.h:305:24: asm/socket.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 1 make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2

and i hadn't realised PM's were disabled, i can't send the config-2.6.6 file that way, it's 53k so i'd think little too lrge to just paste here in the forum also.... ?
06-14-2004, 01:20 AM
Gozar

Re: nvidia drivers with kernel 2.6.6 partial howto (needshel

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yakumo

problem.... :

Code:

make menuconfig HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep In file included from /usr/include/sys/socket.h:35, from /usr/include/netinet/in.h:24, from scripts/basic/fixdep.c:107: /usr/include/bits/socket.h:305:24: asm/socket.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 1 make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2

cd into include and do a ln -s asm-i386 asm

Quote:

and i hadn't realised PM's were disabled, i can't send the config-2.6.6 file that way, it's 53k so i'd think little too lrge to just paste here in the forum also.... ?

(removed)

Sincerley
Gozar
06-14-2004, 03:00 AM
Yakumo

Re: nvidia drivers with kernel 2.6.6 partial howto (needshel

mail you the full config.

i guess it has something to do with

CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y

or

CONFIG_X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG=y

?
06-14-2004, 05:15 AM
mzilikazi

Well this all seems entirely too complicated for me. I do this:

Code:

apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.6 cd /usr/src tar xjvf kernel-source-2.6.6.tar.bz2 ln -s kernel-source-2.6.6 linux cd linux make menuconfig make-kpkg buildpackage -rev your-version kernel_image cd .. dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.6_your-version_i386.deb kernel-headers-2.6.6_your-version_i386.deb Nvidia driver. I have had no luck w/ the 5336 driver, 2.6.* and nforce1 Asus mobo. YMMV wget http://kanotix.com/files/install-nvidia-4620-debian.sh OR wget http://kanotix.com/files/install-nvidia-5336-debian.sh chmod +x install-nvidia-4620-debian.sh CTRL+ALT+F1 ./install-nvidia-4620-debian.sh

voila!

Works first time everytime and takes about 15 minutes on my XP2200+ w/ 1G system RAM.

If you can't get Kano's script to work (although I can't imagine why it wouldn't) you can get one of these:
http://www.sh.nu/download/nvidia/linux-2.6/

Also works first time everytime.
06-14-2004, 10:40 AM
Gozar

[quote="mzilikazi"]Well this all seems entirely too complicated for me. I do this:

Code:

apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.6 cd /usr/src tar xjvf kernel-source-2.6.6.tar.bz2 ln -s kernel-source-2.6.6 linux cd linux make menuconfig make-kpkg buildpackage -rev your-version kernel_image cd .. dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.6_your-version_i386.deb kernel-headers-2.6.6_your-version_i386.deb Nvidia driver. I have had no luck w/ the 5336 driver, 2.6.* and nforce1 Asus mobo. YMMV wget http://kanotix.com/files/install-nvidia-4620-debian.sh OR wget http://kanotix.com/files/install-nvidia-5336-debian.sh chmod +x install-nvidia-4620-debian.sh CTRL+ALT+F1 ./install-nvidia-4620-debian.sh

Ofcurse this works. You are replacing the knoppix kernel with your own custum kernel.

The issue is that tou need the source for the running kernel, as you are making your own kernel you got it.

However all users is not as advanced as you.

Sincerley
Gozar
06-14-2004, 10:57 AM
Gozar

Re: nvidia drivers with kernel 2.6.6 partial howto (needshel

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yakumo

mail you the full config.

i guess it has something to do with

CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y

or

CONFIG_X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG=y

?

Current progress.

Downloaded kernel 2.6.6 from kernel org
installed kernel headers for kernel 2.6.6
make mrproper
copyed the config to the kernel and then run make
There was no questions asked?

where did you get your kernel source from?

Sincerely
Gozar
06-14-2004, 11:28 AM
Yakumo

Re: nvidia drivers with kernel 2.6.6 partial howto (needshel

like i'd said in the first post, i ran kpackage and got the kernel and header 2.6.6 packages via that...

I'll try kernel.org..
06-14-2004, 12:36 PM
Yakumo

ok, trying again with kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.6.tar.bz2

make hasn't asked any questions at all, so i'm hopefull this time :)

it will be a couple of hours at least till i know how it's gone though, it's only a lowly 128mb k62-400 ;o(
06-14-2004, 02:11 PM
Gozar

Success.
I'm typing this, running kernel 2.6.6 and using the nvidia module.
06-14-2004, 05:07 PM
Yakumo

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gozar

Success.
I'm typing this, running kernel 2.6.6 and using the nvidia module.

yup, same here =)
so after a weekend of recompiling, my only real problem was using kpackage to get the kernel source :(

oh well, at least i've learnt more this way, thanks loads for your help :)