NVIDIA conflict between 7167 and 7667

[James Gray]

On Thursday 01 December 2005 08:14, 'Forum Post, '@wailuku.xlogicgroup.com 
wrote:
> hi john,
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> try this... reinstall 7167, then use synaptic to right click the driver
> to do a "COMPLETE" removal, instead of just a plain removal.
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> tat will uninstall the unwanted driver, PLUS remove all its config
> files.
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> 7667 installation should work after tat.
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> pls note tat due to gcc 4.0 problems, 7676 CANNOT run on breezy...
> unless someone can correct me!!

Funny, I've got 7676 running on my AMD64 Breezy system :)

$grep -i nv /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(**) |   |-->Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV36 [GeForce FX 5700]"
(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation GeForce FX 5700 rev 161, Mem @ 
0xfc000000/24, 0xe0000000/28, BIOS @ 0xfd600000/17
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
(II) NVIDIA X Driver  1.0-7676  Fri Jul 29 13:17:34 PDT 2005  <--- SEE?
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs
(--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found                                                                                                                                        

$cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" \n \l

$uname -a
Linux frodo 2.6.12-9-amd64-k8 #1 Mon Oct 10 13:13:36 BST 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The problem is that the default compiler in Breezy is gcc-4.0.  BUT the kernel 
was compiled with gcc-3.4 (coz it wont compile with 4.0).  The NVidia kernel 
module must be compiled with the same compiler as the rest of the kernel.

So you "sudo apt-get install gcc-3.4 gcc-3.4-base" then when you run the 
NVidia installer do it like this:
CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4 ; sudo sh /path/to/nvidia-installer

VOILA!

HTH,

James
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