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z1lt0id

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Registered: 2012-09-20

Posts: 177

NVIDIA Blob Won't Compile

I've been trying lately to compile the latest beta drivers via AUR, and I've tried several different PKGBUILDS but none of them build.  I've been specifically trying the nvidia-full-beta one and I get the following error msg.

- Building Nvidia module for 3.15.2-1-ARCH...
NVIDIA: calling KBUILD...
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/lib/modules/3.15.2-1-ARCH/build'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'modules'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/lib/modules/3.15.2-1-ARCH/build'
NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
nvidia.ko failed to build!
Makefile:176: recipe for target 'nvidia.ko' failed
make: *** [nvidia.ko] Error 1
== ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...
== ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build nvidia-full-beta.
== Restart building nvidia-full-beta ? [y/N]

I haven't found too much on the forum, does anybody have any idea how to resolve this problem?

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: NVIDIA Blob Won't Compile

Post the exact command you're using.

What's the output of

pacman -Q linux
uname -a

z1lt0id

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Registered: 2012-09-20

Posts: 177

Re: NVIDIA Blob Won't Compile

I'm currently using Yaourt to install AUR packages.  So the command is

yaourt -S nvidia-full-beta

And regarding the output for those commands.

linux 3.15.3-1
linux ziltoid 3.15.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jul 1 07:32:45 CEST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: NVIDIA Blob Won't Compile

You shouldn't be installing it in /usr/lib/modules/3.15.2-1-ARCH/build if you're running linux 3.15.3-1.
Try installing with just makepkg.

z1lt0id

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Registered: 2012-09-20

Posts: 177

Re: NVIDIA Blob Won't Compile

alright thanks for the pointer

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ConnorBehan

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Re: NVIDIA Blob Won't Compile

You need linux-headers.

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z1lt0id

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Registered: 2012-09-20

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Re: NVIDIA Blob Won't Compile

ahh as simple as that try that now

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