[Linux-disciples] Compiling nVidia drivers

[Adam Kessel]

You need to install the same gcc that the kernel was compiled under,
which is the gcc from unstable.  

nVidia provides a proprietary kernel module for video support, and it
needs to recompile stuff to link against the currently running kernel.
You can't have modules to the kernel compiled with a different compiler
than the kernel itself.  

You also obviously need the kernel source to be installed in /usr/src.  

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 05:39:15PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Don't you guys love the flood of my comments today?
> 
> All right, here's another, since you asked. The relevant
> page for nVidia drivers is here:
> http://shorl.com/benulumubrafy
> 
> It actually features a nice curses-ish installer that goes
> through some good checks. For some reason the installer
> checks first for a 'precompiled kernel interface'; failing
> that, it checks nVidia's FTP site for
> the same thing; failing THAT, it looks in /usr/src to find
> the Linux source code and tries to compile out of there.
> That's the step I'm on.
> 
> It says that the source code features a GCC version
> different from the one that compiled the kernel that I'm
> running; the kernel I'm running was compiled against GCC
> 3.3, whereas the source is set to use 2.95. I tried doing
> 
> set CC=gcc-3.3
> 
> but that didn't work. What do I need to set to make this
> work? Or what do I edit within the source to change the
> compiler version?
> 
> I'm not exactly sure what the nVidia installer is doing, so
> I'm flying rather blindly ...
> 
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