[PlanetCCRMA] Re: Nvidia driver problems for the kernel

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

> Hi Lawrence,
> Try
> export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=yes
> before compiling or rebuilding your NVIDIA_kernel driver, that worked fine 
> for me.

Was this under RedHat 8.0? Or 7.3? (8.0 uses gcc3,2 which is quite
different from gcc2.96 in 7.2 or 7.3). 

-- Fernando

> > I'm sorry if this topic seems irrelevant to you.
> > I was able to install successfully the Planet CCRMA kernel using the 
> > new CD images for Redhat 8.0. Installing packages went well using 
> > apt. Then I attempted to install the Nvidia display driver by 
> > untarring the source and using 'make install' as the manual states. 
> > I was successful in installing such drivers when I had an updated 
> > 2.4.18 kernel from RHN and an unpatched 2.4.19 kernel. The error 
> > message is :
> > 
> > You appear to be compiling the NVdriver kernel module with
> > a compiler different from the one that was used to compile
> > the running kernel. This may be perfectly fine, but there
> > are cases where this can lead to unexpected behaviour and
> > system crashes.
> > 
> > If you know what you are doing and want to override this
> > check, you can do so by setting IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH.
> > 
> > In any other case, set the CC environment variable to the
> > name of the compiler that was used to compile the kernel.
> > 
> > *** Failed cc sanity check. Bailing out! ***
> > make: *** [gcc-check] Error 1
> > + exit 0
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Lawrence Miranda