20 Sep
2008
20 Sep
'08
4:23 p.m.
On Saturday 20 September 2008 01:43:27 Norval Watson wrote:
"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…
rt=60&sid=8e4f00faf126a981e2c5f98bd9db18bb Hope this helps
Norv
Thanks! Worked like a charm. I was looking at sema_init functions and such but
that did not work. Incorporating actual code in #defines is not my favorite
practice :-)
Now if I could figure out what ails the IDE ...