On November 2, 2005 01:10 pm, Gilles wrote: > Hello. > > I tried something along the lines of the recipe evoked several times > on this list, namely: > > $ m-a build -t -u module-assistant -k source/linux-2.6.14 nvidia > > Somewhere at the beginning of the log file: > > WARNING: Symbol version dump > /home/eran/system/kernel/source/linux-2.6.14/Module.symvers is > missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions. > > [Follows many warnings from the compilation.] > > And this is the end of the log file: > > [...] > LD [M] > /home/eran/system/kernel/module-assistant/usr_src/modules/nvidia-kern >el/nv/nvidia.o Building modules, stage 2. > MODPOST > /bin/sh: scripts/mod/modpost: No such file or directory > make[4]: *** [__modpost] Error 127 > make[3]: *** [modules] Error 2 > make[3]: Leaving directory > `/home/eran/system/kernel/source/linux-2.6.14' NVIDIA: left KBUILD. > nvidia.ko failed to build! > make[2]: *** [module] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/home/eran/system/kernel/module-assistant/usr_src/modules/nvidia-ker >nel/nv' make[1]: *** [build-stamp] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/home/eran/system/kernel/module-assistant/usr_src/modules/nvidia-ker >nel' make: *** [kdist_image] Error 2 > > It seems that the compilation itself went OK (apart from the many > warnings), but there was a problem in "stage 2". What's the problem? > > > I also tried with "make-kpkg", without better luck: > > Module /home/eran/system/kernel/source/modules/nvidia-kernel failed. > Perhaps /home/eran/system/kernel/source/modules/nvidia-kernel does > not understand --rootcmd? If you see messages that indicate that it > is not > in fact being built as root, please file a bug > against /home/eran/system/kernel/source/modules/nvidia-kernel. > > > > Gilles
Try the advice in this post I seen on Debian User. http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread/f126e8f271acbbb5/2b3371f32bd0729f?lnk=st&q=kernel+2.6.14+prepare+debian+user&rnum=1#2b3371f32bd0729f Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc
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