Ubuntu 8.10 RC and NVIDIA 96.43.05

[Nicolae Ghimbovschi]

I checked the linux-headers package for the current kernel version, it
is installed.

root at saturn:~# apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 19:32, adam <jiang.adam at gmail.com> wrote:
> You need the kernel headers.
> Obviously, asm/xxx.h is missing in your side.
> Please do it following Mario's instructions.
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:22:57PM +0200, Mario Guenterberg wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 07:16:33PM +0300, Nicolae Ghimbovschi wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Today I installed Ubuntu 8.10 RC.
>> > Everything looks gorges.
>> >
>> > The kernel version is 2.6.27-7-generic.
>> >
>> > Linux saturn 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Fri Oct 24 06:42:44 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
>> >
>> > But the nvidia driver failed to build using the source from the ubuntu
>> > repositories.
>> > I have nvidia GeForce2 MX/MX 400.
>> >
>> > I have installed:
>> > nvidia-96-kernel-source
>> > nvidia-96-modaliases
>> > nvidia-glx-96
>> > nvidia-glx-96-dev
>> > nvidia-kernel-common
>> > nvidia-settings
>> >
>> > When I was installing them, the following error ocurred:
>> > ...
>> > Setting up nvidia-96-kernel-source (96.43.05-0ubuntu10) ...
>> > Removing all DKMS Modules
>> > Done.
>> > Adding Module to DKMS build system
>> > driver version= 96.43.05
>> > Doing initial module build
>> >
>> > Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.27-7-generic (i686)
>> > Consult the make.log in the build directory
>> > /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/96.43.05/build/ for more information.
>> > Installing initial module
>> >
>> > I have attached make.log to this email.
>> >
>> > Is this ok ?
>> See the view lines with the ERROR in your make.log!
>> You must install linux-headers-$(uname -r)!
>>
>> Greetings
>> Mario
>>
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