nvidia broken... NOW IT WORKS!

zerogeny · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 85

subject says it all

update:
with the new gentoo sources (r1) nvidia drivers compile and work as advertised, even with grsecurity on!!! yeehaa!
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klieber · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 3:20 pm Post subject: Re: nvidia broken...

Guest · Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2002 5:00 pm Post subject: nvidia driver problems

I just installed gentoo - using the xfs kernel (2.4.1

when I went to install the nvidia drivers (per diretions) some message kept popping up and saying that as of April 22 there was a change to the organizational etc ....
At the very end of this message there was mention of kernel 2.4.19.

Now - from what I can see - kernel 2.4.19 is the kernel being used for 'gentoo-sources' which apparently the nvidia drivers are 'looking for' ? maybe? But, since I'm using xfs - I can only have the source for the xfs enabled kernel which is 2.4.18. Once I download the gentoo-sources and see that it is 2.4.19 - I also discover that there is now way to enable xfs in this particular source tree. My solution was to go to nvidia.com download the sources, run make install in both, edit the XF86config file and - done.

Not a big deal -- just a little confusing.

aj · Guest

Using gentoo-source-2.4.19:

oak# emerge nvidia-kernel
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.2880 to /
>>> md5 ;-)

NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2880.tar.gz
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2880.tar.gz
>>> Source unpacked.
rm -f nv.o os-interface.o os-registry.o Module-linux nv_compiler.h *.d NVdriver
cc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wno-multichar -O -MD -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D_X86=1 -Di386=1 -DUNIX -DLINUX -DNV4_HW -DNTRM -DRM20 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRM_HEAPMGR -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=2880 -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wno-cast-qual nv.c
nv.c: In function `nv_kern_mmap':
nv.c:1438: `PAGE_SHARED' undeclared (first use in this function)
nv.c:1438: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
nv.c:1438: for each function it appears in.)
make: *** [nv.o] Error 1

!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 2, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

!!! emerge aborting on /usr/portage/media-video/nvidia-kernel/nvidia-kernel-1.0.2880.ebuild .
# bummer

Dunska · Guest

I get the same error message as aj :cry:

Just installed base system (gentoo-sources-2.4.19) and merged kde.

Guest · Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2002 10:33 am Post subject:

thats the error i was getting (using 2.4.19)...

i dont really new 3d but having proper drivers is always nice.
its actually probably an nvidia problem though, i remember how some drivers broke when newer kernels came out and they fixed them...

burzmali · Apprentice Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 238 Location: ca

i get the same error as aj, too.
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Dunska · Guest

The bummer is that I have a GeForce 4 Ti4400 and the "standard"
XFree86 Nvidia driver does not work with it...

I suppose I could download the source from Nvidia and see if compiling it
manually works - will this break Portage or cause me problems in future?

burzmali · Apprentice Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 238 Location: ca

i tried to install it manually already and got the same error :evil:

! maybe one of us should try an older driver version...
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burzmali · Apprentice Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 238 Location: ca

i just tried the 2802 kernel driver and got the same error with PAGE_SHARED being undefined. i suspect this has something to do with the new gentoo-sources kernel source ebuild. are you using the gentoo-sources linux kernel, too? if i get a chance, i will try another kernel and see if that fixes it.
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Dunska · Guest

Yeah - using gentoo-sources-2.4.19

I tried the two previous driver version in Portage and got the same error.

Let us know how you go with a different kernel.

Dunska · Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2002 1:32 pm Post subject: 2.4.19 = no nvidia compile

It's the 2.4.19-gentoo kernel... I just compiled the 2.4.18 (vanilla-sources) kernel and the nvidia drivers work fine.

zerogeny · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 85

i didnt want to hear that

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Black_Xmas · Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2002 12:16 pm Post subject: NVidia Kernel

Yup, I have problems with the Nvidia kernel too. Not really sure what's happening to it... I start with a stage3 install, reboot, install X, then I configured X and:

emerge media-video/nvidia-kernel

I did this a couple days ago and the driver installed without a hitch what so ever. I did this today (reinstall) and it fails. It looks like emerge is downloading 2.4.18 kernel sources, patching them to 2.4.19 and then installing the driver. I already boot from a bare 1.1a install which uses the 2.4.19 kernel anyway so I wonder if this step is nessicary.

I noticed then after that the driver was located in an odd place. It had been installed to /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo/kernel/video/NVdriver. When perhaps it should have been installed to /lib/modules/2.4.19-r1/kernel/video/NVdriver.

When I tried to move it to where the rest of my modules are kept (/lib/modules/2.4.19-r1/...) and tried insmod & modprobe NVdriver it returned unresolved symbols and failed to load. Maybe I did something wrong? I don't know, but I find it odd that 2.4.18 is being downloaded and patched to 2.4.19 when there's a 2.4.19 kernel already installed.

Sorry if the information in this post is useless/incomplete/incorrect, I'm pretty new to linux. But I hope it helps anyway.

Adrian [Black_Xmas]

*typo edit

aj · n00b Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 7

Dr sez this

This is caused by an incompatibilty with a part of grsecurity.

The crack gentoo team is working on it and have posted a workaround.

You can disable the relevant part of grsecurity or just turn the whole thing off?

See the bug report:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2133

zerogeny · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 85

i think it compiles now with the new r1 gentoo-sources but the new gentoo-sources doesnt compile

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rac · Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 7:18 pm Post subject:

From Bugs to Other Things Gentoo, problem with Gentoo kernel.
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