Re: nvidia driver for RH8

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On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Margaret_Doll wrote:

> I tried following the instructions from Jesse Keating and Roger for the 
> installation of the NVIDIA drivers for my Dell station (Intel 
> processor) which is now running at 2.4.18-17.8.0
> 
> 	Both the rebuild and the make failed.  I have attached text files 
> containing the problems with both attempts to install the drivers.  I 
> have a "production" computer without graphics.
> 
> 	The make ended in
> 
> /usr/include/linux/highmem.h: At top level:
> nv.c:155: storage size of `nv_fops' isn't known
> nv.c:1037: storage size of `nv_vm_ops' isn't known
> make: *** [nv.o] Error 1
> [root@samuel NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123]# exit
> 
> 		
> 
> 	The rebuild ended in
> 
> nv.c:2929: parse error before ')' token^M
> /usr/include/linux/highmem.h: At top level:^M
> nv.c:155: storage size of `nv_fops' isn't known^M
> nv.c:1037: storage size of `nv_vm_ops' isn't known^M
> make: *** [nv.o] Error 1^M
> 
> 
Be sure that you've got a clean install of the kernel source.  You should 
then be able to run the rebuild command on the NVIDIA_kernel src file.  
You don't need to rebuild the GLX file.  You can just install the rpm from 
the NVIDIA website.

-- 
Gerry

"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer



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