[PlanetCCRMA] Re: Nvidia driver problems for the kernel

[Patricio de la Cuadra]

Yes I'm using RH 8.0. Although now, since I compiled the kernel with the 
same version of gcc, I don't need it :-))) 
Pato.

> > 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


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