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helio Apprentice
Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 237
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 9:18 am Post subject: NVIDIA installer cannot find kernel.h (Solved) |
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After a recent emerge my NVIDIA driver stopped working due to ABI conflict with the xorg-server-1.8.4. So I have been trying to install a new version of NVIDIA driver using the NVIDIA intaller NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.44.run. Then I got into trouble when the installer couldn't find the kernel.h:
ERROR: The kernel header file '/lib/modules/3.17.7-gentoo/source/include/linux/kernel.h' does not exist. The most likely
reason for this is that the kernel source path '/lib/modules/3.17.7-gentoo/source' is incorrect. Please make sure you
have installed the kernel source files for your kernel and that they are properly configured; on Red Hat Linux systems,
for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' or 'kernel-devel' RPM installed. If you know the correct kernel
source files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the '--kernel-source-path' command line option.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
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Buffoon Veteran
Joined: 17 Jun 2015 Posts: 1369 Location: EU or US
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 10:50 am Post subject: |
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nVidia driver up to version 370.28 is in portage, why manual inastall?
Code: | * x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
Available versions: [M]96.43.23-r1(0/96)^msd [M]173.14.39-r1(0/173)^msd 304.131(0/304)^msd (~)304.131-r1(0/304)^msd (~)304.131-r4(0/304)^md 340.93-r1(0/340)^msd 340.96(0/340)^msd (~)340.96-r5(0/340)^md [m]346.96-r1(0/346)^msd [m](~)346.96-r6(0/346)^md [m]352.63(0/352)^msd [m]352.79(0/352)^msd [m](~)352.79-r4(0/352)^md [m](~)355.00.27(0/355.00)^fmd [m]355.11-r2(0/355)^msd [m](~)355.11-r4(0/355)^md [m]358.16-r1(0/358)^msd [m](~)358.16-r5(0/358)^md [m]361.28(0/361)^msd [m](~)361.28-r2(0/361)^md [m](~)361.42(0/361)^md [m](~)361.45.11(0/361.45)^md [m](~)361.45.18(0/361.45)^md [m](~)364.12-r1(0/364)^md [m](~)364.15(0/364)^md [m](~)364.19(0/364)^md [m](~)367.18(0/367)^md [m](~)367.27(0/367)^md [m](~)367.35-r1(0/367)^md [m](~)367.44(0/367)^md [m](~)370.28(0/370)^md {+X acpi compat custom-cflags +driver gtk gtk2 gtk3 +kms multilib pax_kernel static-libs (+)tools uvm wayland KERNEL="FreeBSD linux"}
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OTOH your kernel is outdated. |
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helio Apprentice
Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 237
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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At certain point in the past, the x11 version of nvidia driver didn't seem to work. Anyway, I couldn't get it emerged either
>>> Emerging (6 of 6) x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-361.28::gentoo
* Fetching files in the background.
* To view fetch progress, run in another terminal:
* tail -f /var/log/emerge-fetch.log
* NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-361.28.run SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ... [ ok ]
* nvidia-settings-361.28.tar.bz2 SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ... [ ok ]
* Determining the location of the kernel source code
* Found kernel source directory:
* /usr/src/linux
* Could not find a Makefile in the kernel source directory.
* Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a complete set of Linux sources
* Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version for build, attempting to use running version
* Could not find a usable .config in the kernel source directory.
* Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a configured set of Linux sources.
* If you are using KBUILD_OUTPUT, please set the environment var so that
* it points to the necessary object directory so that it might find .config.
* ERROR: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-361.28::gentoo failed (setup phase):
* Kernel not configured; no .config found in |
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xaviermiller Bodhisattva
Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 8708 Location: ~Brussels - Belgique
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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does the /usr/src/linux symbolic link point to an active Linux kernel tree?
It seems the link points to a uninstalled version (there remain only .o, not the Makefile). _________________ Kind regards,
Xavier Miller |
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helio Apprentice
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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xaviermiller wrote: | does the /usr/src/linux symbolic link point to an active Linux kernel tree?
It seems the link points to a uninstalled version (there remain only .o, not the Makefile). |
Well in /usr/src/linux the kernel.h was missing. Following the suggestion from the first response, I installed the latest kernel. Then I was able to install the latest nvidia proprietary driver. Finally X is working again, even though some of the problems reported earlier still remain (but probably don't matter for now).
Thanks for all the responses. |
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