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pwntigo

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Registered: 2006-09-25

Posts: 15

Problem downgrading nvidia

Hi, I want to use nvidia-177 drivers but somehow the installer can't find the prebuild kernel

PKGBUILD

pkgname=nvidia-test
pkgver=177.82
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="NVIDIA beta drivers for kernel26."
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
_kernver=`uname -r`
[ "$CARCH" = "i686" ] && ARCH=x86 && NV=0
[ "$CARCH" = "x86_64" ] && ARCH=x86_64 && NV=0
provides=(nvidia=${pkgver})
depends=(kernel26)
conflicts=('nvidia-96xx' 'nvidia-71xx' 'nvidia-legacy')
license=('custom')
install=('nvidia.install')
source=(http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-177.82-pkg0.run)


md5sums=('882f34a662f0175682fdc4a9bec909ba')
[ "$CARCH" = "x86_64" ] && md5sums=('6a6d04411529c8d7616deee3d68c5346')


build()
{
  # Extract the nvidia drivers
  cd $startdir/src/
  sh NVIDIA-Linux-${ARCH}-${pkgver}-pkg${NV}.run --extract-only
  cd NVIDIA-Linux-${ARCH}-${pkgver}-pkg${NV}
  cd usr/src/nv
  ln -s Makefile.kbuild Makefile

  make SYSSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.29-ARCH/build module  || return 1

  # Install kernel module
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/lib/modules/${_kernver}/kernel/drivers/video/
  install -m644 nvidia.ko $startdir/pkg/lib/modules/${_kernver}/kernel/drivers/video/ || return 1
}

All goes fine until it tries to make

*** Unable to determine the target kernel version. ***

make: *** [select_makefile] Error 1

uname -a

Linux pwntigo 2.6.29-ARCH

ls /lib/modules/2.6.29-ARCH/
build@   misc/          modules.alias.bin  modules.dep      modules.ieee1394map  modules.isapnpmap  modules.order   modules.seriomap  modules.symbols.bin
kernel/  modules.alias  modules.ccwmap     modules.dep.bin  modules.inputmap     modules.ofmap      modules.pcimap  modules.symbols   modules.usbmap

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Problem downgrading nvidia

i think that version of driver doesn't support kernel 2.6.29. you have to find a patch. i see that gentoo has a patch for kernel 2.6.28. also the build has serios flaws and the driver cannot run without any libs and those are provided by nvidia-utils and you have to make one for your version too.

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