Re: [LAU] Finally build 2.6.26 that works

"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&start=60&sid=8e4f00faf126a981e2c5f98bd9db18bb
Hope this helps
Norv

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Received on Sat Sep 20 04:15:01 2008