[wplug] geforce4 and redhat

[Tom McCullough]

Vanco, Donald wrote:

>Here's what's worked on some of the RH betas that had issues like this:
>
>1) grab http://www.minion.de/files/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191-2.5-tl.diff
>2) on line 151 of the patch there's 
>+#  define REMAP_PAGE_RANGE(a...)        remap_page_range(## a)
>which you need to change to 
>+#  define REMAP_PAGE_RANGE(a...)        remap_page_range(vma,## a)
>(add ifdefs detecting RH8 2.4 kernels if you want to be fancy)
>3) Apply modified patch
>4) Compile as usual
>5) Edit /etc/X11/prefdm and /usr/X11R6/bin/startx (depending on what you
>use) to have a export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 right in the beginning.
>
>
>YMMV
>Don
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>Tom McCullough wrote:
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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.. 
>>>>>
>>>>>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.
>>>
>>>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:
>>
>>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
>>
>>then the last few are different:
>>
>>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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That worked!!!
Where did you come up with that patch info? I guess I am not a google 
expert eh?
Now I have the mouse to configure (I had to tell x it was just a ps/2 
mouse instead of the genericwheelmouseps/2 that was listed in XF86Config.
It never ends........................
tom...