Finally build 2.6.26 that works

[dovidhalevi]

2.6.26.5 with the rt9 real-time patch. No problems with the IDE1 line this
time around (previous ones killed DMA, 32-bit access, etc, a rendered the disk
temporary unreadable to BIOS!! on reboot). Now to try to use the thing.

Build kqemu, vboxdrv, squashfs, no sweat.

Nvidia .... always a problem, it seems. Neither nvidia's nor debian's legacy
driver (for mx400 cards) will compile. Debian's (where I had the sources and
could play a bit) complains about an implicit definition of
__SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER. This is inside a #define that stuffs a mutex
structure. I tried breaking this into a function and a #define but the
constant is the problem, not how it was being used.

Any ideas?

Two more caveats:

The patch does not append -rt to the kernel name (.config indicates the patch
was indeed applied OK). Not very important.

Got this on bootup:
Sep 19 09:39:46 d_baron kernel: warning: `proftpd' uses 32-bit capabilities
(legacy support in use)
This could be important!  The current kernel did not kill 32-bit access(??).
Any ideas?
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[norv]

"Nvidia .... always a problem, it seems. Neither nvidia's nor debian's legacy
driver (for mx400 cards) will compile. Debian's (where I had the sources and
could play a bit) complains about an implicit definition of
__SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER. This is inside a #define that stuffs a mutex
structure. I tried breaking this into a function and a #define but the
constant is the problem, not how it was being used.

Any ideas?"

Fortunately, it's not too difficult to work around.  

Code:
apt-get update;apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source
sed -i '/__SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER/
s/__SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER/__COMPAT_SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER/'
/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv-linux.h
sed -i '/struct semaphore/ s/struct semaphore/struct compat_semaphore/' /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv-linux.h
See this page, down the bottom..
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=17035&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60&sid=8e4f00faf126a981e2c5f98bd9db18bb
Hope this helps
Norv



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[dovidhalevi]

On Saturday 20 September 2008 01:43:27 Norval Watson wrote:

> "Nvidia .... always a problem, it seems. Neither nvidia's nor debian's
> legacy driver (for mx400 cards) will compile. Debian's (where I had the
> sources and could play a bit) complains about an implicit definition of
> __SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER. This is inside a #define that stuffs a mutex
> structure. I tried breaking this into a function and a #define but the
> constant is the problem, not how it was being used.
>
> Any ideas?"
>
> Fortunately, it's not too difficult to work around.
>
> Code:
> apt-get update;apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source
> sed -i '/__SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER/
> s/__SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER/__COMPAT_SEMAPHORE_INITIALIZER/'
> /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv-linux.h
> sed -i '/struct semaphore/ s/struct semaphore/struct compat_semaphore/'
> /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv-linux.h See this page, down the bottom..
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=17035&postdays=0&postorder=asc&sta
>rt=60&sid=8e4f00faf126a981e2c5f98bd9db18bb Hope this helps
> Norv

Thanks! Worked like a charm. I was looking at sema_init functions and such but
that did not work. Incorporating actual code in #defines is not my favorite
practice :-)

Now if I could figure out what ails the IDE ...
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