[LAU] Finally build 2.6.26 that works

[Norval Watson]

"Nvidia .... always a problem, it seems. Neither nvidia's nor debian's legacy 
driver (for mx400 cards) will compile. Debian's (where I had the sources and 
could play a bit) complains about an implicit definition of 
__SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER. This is inside a #define that stuffs a mutex 
structure. I tried breaking this into a function and a #define but the 
constant is the problem, not how it was being used.

Any ideas?"

Fortunately, it's not too difficult to work around.  

Code: 
apt-get update;apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source 
sed -i '/__SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER/
s/__SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER/__COMPAT_SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER/'
/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv-linux.h 
sed -i '/struct semaphore/ s/struct semaphore/struct compat_semaphore/' /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv-linux.h 
See this page, down the bottom..
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=17035&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60&sid=8e4f00faf126a981e2c5f98bd9db18bb
Hope this helps
Norv



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