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Started 1 month ago by Ceel
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Ceel

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Hi,

SliTaz Rolling on an old computer with NVIDIA graphic card, works fine with nouveau. I wondered if the proprietary driver could improve performance but the installer returns
```
ERROR: The kernel header file
  '/lib/modules/3.16.55-slitaz/build/include/linux/version.h' does not
  exist.  The most likely reason for this is that the kernel source files
  in '/lib/modules/3.16.55-slitaz/build' have not been configured.
```
The file is neither in linux-api-headers nor in linux-module-headers, and the linux sources are installed of course.
Any idea to satisfy the NVidia installer?
Posted 1 month ago #
shann

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Hi Ceel,

It's strange, if i check on tank or pkgs.slitaz.org, normally linux-api-headers include it.

shann@tank:/home/slitaz/cooking/chroot/home/slitaz/wok/linux-api-headers$ ls taz
/linux-api-headers-3.16.55/fs/usr/include/linux/version.h -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97 Jan 21 2024 taz/linux-api-headers-3.16.55/fs/usr/include/linux/version.h

shann@tank:~$ tazpkg extract /home/slitaz/cooking/packages/linux-api-headers-3.1
6.55.tazpkg

Extraction de: linux-api-headers-3.16.55
================================================================================
Copie du paquet original... [ OK ]
Extraction de linux-api-headers-3.16.55... [ OK ]
Extraction du pseudo fs...(lzma) [ OK ]
================================================================================
linux-api-headers-3.16.55 est extrait vers: linux-api-headers-3.16.55

shann@tank:~$ ls linux-api-headers-3.16.55/fs/usr/include/linux/version.h -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 shann users 97 Jan 21 2024 linux-api-headers-3.16.55/fs/usr/include/linux/version.h

https://pkgs.slitaz.org/?filelist=linux-api-headers

Think maybe linux-source broken, and /lib/modules/3.16.55-slitaz/build symlink miss :(

Posted 1 month ago #
Ceel

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Hi shann,

Thank you for your answer.
Yes, version.h exists in /usr/include/linux/ (linux-api-headers) and in /usr/src/linux-3.16.55-slitaz/include/linux (linux-module-headers). I copied the file in /lib/modules/3.16.55-slitaz/build and got another error:

ERROR: If you are using a Linux kernel 2.4, please make sure you either have configured kernel sources matching your kernel or the correct set of kernel headers installed on your system.
If you are using a Linux kernel 2.6, please make sure you have configuredkernel sources matching your kernel installed on your system. If you specified a separate output directory using either the "KBUILD_OUTPUT" or the "O" KBUILD parameter, make sure to specify this directory with the SYSOUT environment variable or with the equivalent nvidia-installer command line option.
Depending on where and how the kernel sources (or the kernel headers) were installed, you may need to specify their location with the SYSSRC environment variable or the equivalent nvidia-installer command line option.

Reading the message I realized that the computer is 23 years old. Kernel 3.16 was released on august 2014. I think the NVidia installer cannot build the module for this kernel. I gave a try with SliTaz 4.0 and the module compiled fine.
So, I mark the topic as resolved and this old computer will be very happy with nouveau.

Posted 4 weeks ago #
shann

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Hi Ceel,

Nice to read this :).
If understand, this computer run with SliTaz 4.0 and nouveau ?

Posted 4 weeks ago #
Ceel

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Hi shann,

Not exactly. I did a test with SliTaz 4.0 to know if the NVidia installer would create the module; this seems to confirm it's not possible to compile this NVidia driver for kernels newer than 2.6. But the computer runs Rolling.
nouveau does not exist in SliTaz 4.0; I recompiled linux, linux-drm and create libdrm-nouveau a few years ago to have it. But SliTaz 4.0 has nowaday really limited possibilities :(

Posted 4 weeks ago #

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