NVIDIA Drivers not compiling on 2.6.9-gentoo-r9

metalmaniac1759 · n00b Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 26

I have the following kernels on my system (sources, compiled kernel image and kernel modules):
* 2.6.9-gentoo-r3
* 2.6.7
* 2.4.24

I have an Asus A7N8X-VM Motherboard. The following drivers from nVIDIA:
* NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run
* NFORCE-Linux-x86-1.0-0292-pkg1.run

With 2.6.7 and 2.4.24 both of these packages used to compile and run properly. But the NVIDIA video drivers refuse to compile/install with 2.6.9-gentoo-r3

/usr/src/linux was pointing to /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-gentoo-r3 when I tried installing the NVIDIA drivers.

What could be the problem?

TIA
Nandz.

dsd · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:49 pm Post subject:

posting the compile error might be a good idea...
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mayday147 · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:59 pm Post subject:

Do you have RivaFB compiled in the kernel?
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rohit_nanda1443 · n00b Joined: 16 Nov 2004 Posts: 30

There is some problem. Even if you download the latest drivers from the nvidia site ie 6629 they will compile but the X will hang after showing the nvidia screen.......... I am also facing exactly the same problem.....

sonicwave · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 3:20 pm Post subject:

Yesterday I finished compiling my 2.6.9-r4 kernel with the nvidia 6629 driver. Works like a charm.

I previously had 2.4.26 running with 6111 drivers. Worked ok, but quiting X (log off) would hang my whole system. I did

- emerge --unmerge nvidia-glx
- emerge --unmerge nvidia-kernel
- opengl-update xorg-x11

Then emerged and installed the 2.6.9-r4 kernel and

- emerge nvidia-glx (this will install nvidia-kernel through a dependancy)
- opengl-update nvidia

Then I ran : sh <nvidia driver 6629 file>

Et voila! Problem solved, no compile errors. Has been running pretty stable since.

PMT · Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Posts: 212

Honestly? That makes NO sense to me.

What you just did is:

* Uninstalled nvidia kernel modules
* Uninstalled nvidia glx extensions
* changed your libGL to the standard xorg one
* installed the nvidia kernel modules
* installed the nvidia glx extensions
* switched to the nvidia libGL
* installed the IDENTICAL nvidia kernel modules
* installed the IDENTICAL nvidia glx extensions

So...I'm befuddled.

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metalmaniac1759 · n00b Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 26

dsd · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 7:38 pm Post subject:

so its not a compile error? you may wish to rename the topic.

i'm unsure which dialog you are referring to also. can you be more specific as to what you are doing?
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metalmaniac1759 · n00b Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 26

mayday147 · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 8:18 pm Post subject:

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dsd · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 9:41 pm Post subject:

you should emerge nvidia-kernel in portage. we include fixes that are not present in nvidias own release.
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metalmaniac1759 · n00b Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 26

Pepek · Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 4:45 am Post subject:

metalmaniac1759 · n00b Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 26

[quote="mayday147"]But it [b]must[/b] give you an error. I haven't seen anything to compile in the background, yet.[/quote]

No, it doesnt. It's a curses based interface which does everything in the background and all that I can see is pretty progress bars on the screen. If anything fails - it gives the same error message in a dialog box.

Nandz.

stahlsau · Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 7:08 am Post subject:

why not trying to emerge nvidia-kernel? It´s the same version of the driver, and as noticed before, there are some necessary patches included.
If that fails, recompile your kernel (same options, just recompile). The "invalid module format"-error which you´ll see when modprobing nvidia often comes from booting a previous build kernel when in meantime another one has been build. Those drivers don´t seem to like that.

rusxakep · Guru Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 458

dds root # emerge info
Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl alsa apm arts avi bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib calendar caps crypt ctype cups curl curlwrappers dio doc encode exif foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gnutls gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal howl iconv imap jack java jpeg kde kerberosldap libwww lm_sensors mad memlimit mhash mikmod mime ming motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png python qt quicktime readline samba sasl sdl session shared simplexml snmp soap sockets spell sqlite ssl svga sybase-ct sysvipc tcpd tidy tiff tokenizer truetype wddx xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xpm xsl xv zlib linguas_ru linguas_en"

dds root # emerge -v nvidia-kernel
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r3 to /
* Determining the location of the kernel source code
* Found kernel source directory:
* /usr/src/linux
* Found sources for kernel version:
* 2.6.9-gentoo-r9
* Checking for suitable kernel configuration options
* Using KV_OBJ=ko
* Checking for MTRR support... [ ok ]
>>> Unpacking source...
/usr/portage/distfiles/-.run: /usr/portage/distfiles/-.run: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 89: cd: /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r3/work/-/usr/src/nv: No such file or directory
* Applying 2.6 kernel patches
* Applying power-suspend-2.6.9-changes.patch ...

* Failed Patch: power-suspend-2.6.9-changes.patch!
*
* Include in your bugreport the contents of:
*
* /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r3/temp/power-suspend-2.6.9-changes.patch-28659.out

!!! ERROR: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r3 failed.
!!! Function epatch, Line 402, Exitcode 0
!!! Failed Patch: power-suspend-2.6.9-changes.patch!
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

dds root # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -v nvidia-kernel
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r1 to /
* Determining the location of the kernel source code
* Found kernel source directory:
* /usr/src/linux
* Found sources for kernel version:
* 2.6.9-gentoo-r9
* Checking for suitable kernel configuration options
* Using KV_OBJ=ko
* Checking for MTRR support... [ ok ]
>>> Unpacking source...
/usr/portage/distfiles/-.run: /usr/portage/distfiles/-.run: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 89: cd: /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r1/work/-/usr/src/nv: No such file or directory
* Applying NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-6629-1155389.patch ...

* Failed Patch: NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-6629-1155389.patch!
*
* Include in your bugreport the contents of:
*
* /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r1/temp/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-6629-1155389.patch-29027.out

!!! ERROR: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r1 failed.
!!! Function epatch, Line 402, Exitcode 0
!!! Failed Patch: NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-6629-1155389.patch!
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

dds root #

mko · n00b Joined: 24 May 2003 Posts: 14

Yes rusxakep, I got the exact same thing happening here!

I suppose this is the problem:

/usr/portage/distfiles/-.run: /usr/portage/distfiles/-.run: No such file or directory

rusxakep · Guru Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 458

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75267

res0r9lm · n00b Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 56