[mythtv-users] nvidia, opengl, kernel and more

[Brian Wood]

On Jan 25, 2006, at 11:11 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:

> Hi
>
> Yeah, driver will not compile with 2.6.15, however the patch to make
> them compile is this one:
>
> diff -ru usr/src/nv/conftest.sh usr/src/nv.1444349/conftest.sh
> --- usr/src/nv/conftest.sh      2005-12-15 01:57:35.000000000 +0100
> +++ usr/src/nv.1444349/conftest.sh      2006-01-06 13:54:29.916051750
> +0100
> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
> OUTPUT=$4
> CFLAGS="-D__KERNEL__ \
> +-DKBUILD_BASENAME=\"#conftest$$\" -DKBUILD_MODNAME=\"#conftest$$\" \
> -nostdinc -isystem $ISYSTEM \
> -Werror -Wimplicit-function-declaration"
>
>
> That's it.
> JY
>
>
> On 26/01/2006, at 4:53 PM, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>
>> I heard there's a problem with 2.6.15 and the nvidia drivers.
>> There's a
>> patch somewhere.
>
Are you talking about nVidia's 1.0.8178 driver? It compiled cleanly  
for me with 2.6.15, using their supplied installer script.

There were problems with older nVidia drivers not compiling against  
newer kernels IIRC, I think 6169 had a problem with 2.6.14+, even  
though gentoo had them both listed as "stable". I had to use the  
"unstable" package to even get a clean compilation.

The nVidia drivers are one of the few areas where Gentoo's portage  
system seems to screw me up, hence the usage of nVidia's installer.

Just remember that the drivers must be compiled against the actual  
running kernel sources, even a seemingly minor change will require a  
re-compile.