[wplug] geforce4 and redhat

[Tom McCullough]

Coutch, Robert wrote:

>Do you want me to send you the soursce rpm I have?
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>Maybe yours is a recent download that contains errors.
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>Mine is a few month's old.
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>Reply to list or robert.coutch at verizon.net
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>If you reply to the address in this message, I won't see it till Monday.
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>-Bob
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tom McCullough [mailto:mccull1 at attbi.com]
>Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 4:02 PM
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: Re: [wplug] geforce4 and redhat
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>Vanco, Donald wrote:
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>>Tom McCullough wrote:
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>>>bgtrio at yahoo.com wrote:
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>>>>Well, the "no such user - using root" thing is pretty normal, but I
>>>>typically only see this message one time if memory serves. I don't
>>>>think I can help you without seeing some more of the output from the
>>>>rpmbuild command though.. 
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>>>>You are logged in as root, right?
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>>>>B
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>>>the error scrolled off the screen too fast, 
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>>	Under Linux, you can "shift-page_up" to look at what has blown by.
>>Moving to another VC will, of course, blow out this buffer.
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>>Don
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>That's a great little feature I was not aware of.  Thanks.
>The errors are the same that I saw with the tarball.  They seem to 
>center around a function in the nv.c file called 
>"remap_page_range_R839d959e"  and they cause the nv.o file to not be 
>generated.
>examples:
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>warning: passing arg1 of remap........59e makes pointer from integer 
>without a cast
>too few arguments to function remap..............59e
>Incompatible type for argument 4 of remap.............59e
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>then the last few are different:
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>In function 'nv_get_phys_address'
>warning: implicit declaration of function 'pte_offset'
>invalid type argument of 'unary *'
>make: *** [nv.o] Error 1
>that seems to be the fatal error info.  I am a little confused about the 
>compile making nv.o and the last line that says cannot stat nvidia.o? 
> Neither file is present, though.
>curioser and curioser
>tom......................................
>I think I have been inside long enough today.  I'll check back later tonight
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I would rather not send a 600Kb file to everyone, but it is available at

> http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-4191/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm


 I am running phoebe 8.0.94 with gcc version 3.2.1 kernel 2.4.20-2.48
the file is dated dec11th 2002
I can't thank you enough
tom......................................
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