Video card

[Kenyon Cox]

Greetings:

Having just spent <NiNe HoUrS> on my Deb 3.0 testing/unstable box
w/Nvidia, after I got too ambitious with an apt-get upgrade and hosed my
X, maybe this'll help.

I specified gcc-2.95 in my kernel (2.4.21) Makefile, and changed the gcc
symlink to gcc-2.95 just for good measure.  The gcc-3.3 was giving me
module errors out the wazoo.  A little Google search determined that it
gives lots of other folks errors, as well.

If you'll look in /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4349/debian/rules 
line 119 or so, you'll find that it will set the IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH for
you.  I was still getting the error message during compile, but it
loaded (finally) anyway.

I could get the nvidia module to compile and to load, but I couldn't get
X (no screen error) until I dpkg'd the GLX stuff, as well.

HTH,

Kenyon

> So, until I can find which Makefile into which I have to insert the
> IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH directive, I appear to be stuck.
> 
> Joel

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