On Saturday 20 September 2008 01:43:27 Norval Watson wrote: > "Nvidia .... always a problem, it seems. Neither nvidia's nor debian's > legacy driver (for mx400 cards) will compile. Debian's (where I had the > sources and could play a bit) complains about an implicit definition of > __SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER. This is inside a #define that stuffs a mutex > structure. I tried breaking this into a function and a #define but the > constant is the problem, not how it was being used. > > Any ideas?" > > Fortunately, it's not too difficult to work around. > > Code: > apt-get update;apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source > sed -i '/__SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER/ > s/__SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER/__COMPAT_SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER/' > /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv-linux.h > sed -i '/struct semaphore/ s/struct semaphore/struct compat_semaphore/' > /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv-linux.h See this page, down the bottom.. > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=17035&postdays=0&postorder=asc&sta >rt=60&sid=8e4f00faf126a981e2c5f98bd9db18bb Hope this helps > Norv Thanks! Worked like a charm. I was looking at sema_init functions and such but that did not work. Incorporating actual code in #defines is not my favorite practice :-) Now if I could figure out what ails the IDE ... _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
