[ATrpms-users] nVidia 8776 for 2911 kernel

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On 2/17/07, Harry Orenstein <holists at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Axel,
>
> I posted a request last month for a version of nvidia kmdl for
> 2.6.19-1.2895
> kernel.  Now I see that there's been a kernel update to 2.6.19-1.2911.  I
> think you may have missed the original request because it got held up
> during
> my registration for the list.
>
> Now seems like a good time to ask again (but for the updated kernel).  I
> realized after making the request that 8776 is not compatible with 2.6.19
> kernels, but I also saw the attached patch on the nVidia forums that is
> supposed to fix compatibility.  Any chance this could happen?  TIA!!



As I told you before, there are some problems compiling 8776 in 2.6.19
I am using 9631 in some old computers with GeForce 4 because of that. Can't
you do the same?

What patch are you referring to? Can you point to the exact location?

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include/linux/prefetch.h: In function 'prefetch_range':
include/linux/prefetch.h:62: warning: pointer of type 'void *' used in
arithmetic
/home/roma/redhat/BUILD/nvidia-graphics8776-1.0_8776/usr/src/nv/nv-i2c.c: At
top level:
/home/roma/redhat/BUILD/nvidia-graphics8776-1.0_8776/usr/src/nv/nv-i2c.c:26:error:
unknown field 'slave_send' specified in initializer
/home/roma/redhat/BUILD/nvidia-graphics8776-1.0_8776/usr/src/nv/nv-i2c.c:27:error:
unknown field 'slave_recv' specified in initializer
make[3]: *** [/home/roma/redhat/BUILD/nvidia-
graphics8776-1.0_8776/usr/src/nv/nv-i2c.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/home/roma/redhat/BUILD/nvidia-
graphics8776-1.0_8776/usr/src/nv] Error 2
NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
nvidia.ko failed to build!



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Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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