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SamsLembas

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Registered: 2008-05-02

Posts: 7

GCC version check fail in nVidia installer

I have been working on installing Arch64 on my machine, and have been successful up to the installation of the proprietary nVidia drivers. I am using a GeForce 9800 GTX, and since there are no stable drivers for this card, I am using the beta drivers on their site (they do not seem to be in the repos). When I try to run the installing, I get the following error:

The CC version check falied:

The compiler used to compile the kernel (gcc 4.2) does not exactly match the current compiler (gcc 4.3). The Linux 2.6 kernel module loader rejects kernel modules built with a version of gcc that does not exactly match that of the compiler used to build the running kernel.

If you know what you are doing and want to ignore the gcc version check, select "No" to continue installation. Otherwise, select "Yes to abort installation, set the CC environment variable to the name of the compiler used to compile your kernel, and restart installation. Abort now?

If I understand this correctly, I need to downgrade GCC to version 4.3. How would I go about doing this with Pacman? Also, shouldn't the compiler in the repos be the same as the one which created the kernel?

Thanks in advanced.

hacosta

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From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: GCC version check fail in nVidia installer

you are not supposed to do that.. it will break your system, however there is a PKGBUILD for those beta drivers in the aur¹, you can read how to build your own packages here², also useful is this page³

btw welcome to the forums

1.- aur.archilinux.org
2.-http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg
3.-http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS