Very Computer

I recently installed Linux on my pc and have been trying to get the
NVidia drivers for my TNT2 (both kernel and OpenGL) to compile, but they
will not with the my kernel.  Does anyone have any ideas how I can
compile the modules for my kernel or has anyone gotten this to work for
them?

TIA,

Brian Kiefer

Brian,

I attached the patch that I got from the nvidia IRC channel
at nvidia#irc.openprojects.net

I am using the nvidia kernel module with 2.4.test13-pre2

Give it a whirl,

Tony

[ patch-nvdriver-2.4.0-test11-3 1K ]
diff -ru NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5/nv.c ../projects/nvdriver_/nv.c
--- NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5/nv.c    Sat Aug 26 02:48:38 2000

 #include <linux/modversions.h>
 #endif

+#ifndef mem_map_dec_count
+  #define mem_map_dec_count(p) atomic_dec(&((p)->count));
+#endif
+#ifndef mem_map_inc_count
+  #define mem_map_inc_count(p) atomic_inc(&((p)->count));
+#endif
+
 #include <nv.h>                          // needs to precede other headers (SMP)

 #include <linux/stddef.h>
diff -ru NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5/os-interface.c ../projects/nvdriver_/os-interface.c
--- NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5/os-interface.c  Fri Sep  1 04:19:17 2000

     char *parmp;
     char ch;

+    spinlock_t unload_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
+    struct module *mp = THIS_MODULE;
+    struct module_symbol *sym;
+    int i;
+
     if ((strlen(regParmStr) + NV_SYM_PREFIX_LENGTH) > NV_MAX_SYM_NAME)
         goto done;

     *symp = '\0';

-    symbol_value = get_module_symbol(NV_MODULE_NAME, symbol_name);
-    
-#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2, 4, 0)
-    put_module_symbol(symbol_value);
-#endif
+    spin_lock(&unload_lock);
+    if (MOD_CAN_QUERY(mp) && (mp->nsyms > 0)) {
+        for (i = mp->nsyms, sym = mp->syms;
+             i > 0; --i, ++sym) {
+
+            if (strcmp(sym->name, symbol_name) == 0) {
+                symbol_value = sym->value;
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    spin_unlock(&unload_lock);

  done:
     return (void *) symbol_value;