F8 & Freshrpms nvidia-x11-drv-96xx problem

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Sat Dec 1 16:01:00 UTC 2007


1.0.9639 is rather old, and isn't supported any longer.  If this is
the latest that freshrpms is giving out, then they're out of date, and
you need to go elsewhere.

On 12/1/07, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just updated my FC6 server to F8 (replaced not upgraded) and installed
> the nvidia-x11-drv-96xx driver from Freshrpms which has always worked
> before and is working right now on my desktop. Both systems are running
> the 64bit version of Fedora. Below is the make.log file from  DKMS:
>
> > DKMS make.log for nvidia-1.0.9639-1 for kernel 2.6.23.1-49.fc8 (x86_64)
> > Sat Dec  1 09:30:13 GMT-6 2007
> >
> > NVIDIA: calling KBUILD...
> > make CC=cc  KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 -C /lib/modules/2.6.23.1-49.fc8/build
> > SUBDIRS=/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build modules
> > test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf ||
> > (            \
> >         echo;                                                           \
> >         echo "  ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.";               \
> >         echo "         include/linux/autoconf.h or
> > include/config/auto.conf are missing.";      \
> >         echo "         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel
> > src to fix it.";  \
> >         echo;                                                           \
> >         /bin/false)
> > mkdir -p /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/.tmp_versions
> > rm -f /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/.tmp_versions/*
> > make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build
> > cp /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/nv-kernel.o
> > /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/nv-kernel.o
> > cp: cannot stat `/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/nv-kernel.o':
> > No such file or directory
> > make[3]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build/nv-kernel.o] Error 1
> > make[2]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/1.0.9639-1/build] Error 2
> > NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
> > nvidia.ko failed to build!
> > make[1]: *** [module] Error 1
> > make: *** [module] Error 2
>
> I've never looked at this file before so I don't know what I'm supposed
> to see but the "cp" command looks funny as it appears to be trying to
> copy a file onto itself. The module obviously fails to build and X fails
> to run.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard




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