Tudor Oprea wrote:
>
> Yesterday I went through the harrowing process of trying to get Hail
> going on a brand-new Athlon system for a friend.
>
> The main issue was that he has a Geforce 2 DDR (ASUS AGP7700), lucky
> bastard, but the Geforce DDR/SDR drivers in XFree 3.3 don't work with
> it.
>
> nVIDIA have released comprehensive drivers for Linux, however, they
> require XFree 4.01. There are two parts to these drivers: a GLX
> module and a kernel module. The kernel module does hardware
> addressing, from what I understand, and does so in an optimized way
> that's not possible through a GLX mod. In any case. The task at hand
> was to upgrade hail to XFree 4.01, compile both modules, and make it
> work.
>
> Installation of XFree went fairly smoothly, overwriting the
> hail-installed XFree directories. At the end, running
> XFree86 --configure
> failed, even though it said it knew about the video card. This was
> because it was Geforce 2. Running xf86config worked, and we selected
> the Nvidia driver (nv). This, again, doesn't work with the GF2.
>
> We downloaded the driver files from nVidia, and unpacked them. The
> GLX module compilation worked fine, and it added itself to
> /usr/lib/X11...whatever. We then edited /etc/XF86Config and replaced
> Driver (nv) with Driver (nvidia). nvidia was the name of the
> newly-compiled GLX module.
>
> Last step was to compile the kernel module. This is where the errors
> come in. The kernel that is installed by default is 2.2.16-storm-ide,
> unless we did a bad in the installation. I installed the kernel
> sources for storm-ide, unpacked them into /usr/src/ and linked
> /usr/src/linux to them, because the NVIDIA kernel module requires them
> to compile.
>
> Trying to do this, however, gave an error - could not find
> 'include/linux/modversions.h' or something to that effect. Looking in
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/ showed that that file wasn't there. I
> went back and installed the kernel headers. This by default places
> them in /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.16-storm or something like
> that. I found modversions.h under the header directory
> (include/linux). What to do. I went back to the kernel sources
> directory, renamed 'include' to 'include-backup', then linked the
> headers' include directory to 'include'. This meant that
> modversions.h existed under /usr/src/linux/include/linux. This was
> good. I compiled and installed the kernel module, ran startx, it
> worked, hallelujah.
>
> Actually, it wasn't that easy. The difference in files between
> kernel-source and kernel-headers puzzles me. I thought that the
> source package should include the headers as well. That a file would
> be in the headers package but not the kernel source seems strange.
>
> Secondly, what's the difference between kernel-source-storm and
> kernel-source-storm-ide? When I compiled a kernel
> with the IDE sources, depmod kept spewing out unresolved symbol
> errors. This was perhaps due to the kernel-headers cludge described
> above. But in any case, it took 3 or 4 kernel recompiles to get a
> kernel that 1)loaded modules correctly and 2)allowed the nVIDIA driver
> to compile.
>
> We spent something like 10 hours on this. I've never been happier to
> see twm run. Horrible.
>
> Has anyone else done a Geforce2 install with Storm? Was it as much
> work as this?
>
> cheers,
> Tudor
>
> -----
Hi
I didn't install a Ge2 but I think can clear the modules errors.
As per a post I've read in kernel-devel the kernel headers from
/usr/src are the headers against the libc6 was compiled and one
shouldn't use those for module compilations for the obvious reason
that they won't match the running kernel most of the time.The headers
shouls be there for some reason I don't remember tough.
What you should do tough if all you want to do is compile a module is to
get the kernel-sources matching the running kernel and compile the
modules
against those.Debian actually follows this,that's why the
kernel-sources.deb doesn't have the kernel-headers included.
As for the X stuff,this is one of the effect of using
/etc/alternatives.
Basically gnome/kde are desktop envorinments on top of regular X right?
SO first you install X.The window manager is defined by
/etc/alternatives/x-window-manager which is a symlink to the actual
window
manager.For historical reasons I guess in Debian this is twm.Ugly I
would
agree but that's how it is.Now if you run gdm/kdm those will actually
define the type of session you start eg. gnome/kde bypassing the
alternatives selection.
now when you install X4 I guess you screwed up the existing X config
files since yuo install the generic binaries which aren not tailored
for the Debian way of doing X.I had it happened as well .at the time
I was using kde and I had to specify /etc/alternatives/x-window-mamager
to point to /usr/bin/kde .I guess there is a more proper/elegant
solution
but this got it working for me since I was in a hurry,and afterwards if
it
worked I didn't want to fix something working.:-)
kernel-sources-ide is the kernel with UDMA66 patch which you will
want for an Athlon system.So if yuo have an UDMA66 controller you will
want the ide kernel.
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