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Ceel

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Registered: 2011-04-02

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WANTED: version.h

Hi,

SliTaz Rolling on an old computer with NVIDIA graphic card, works fine with [c]nouveau[/c]. 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 [c]linux-api-headers[/c] nor in [c]linux-module-headers[/c], and the linux sources are installed of course.

Any idea to satisfy the NVidia installer?

shann

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Registered: 2011-04-01

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Re: WANTED: version.h

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

Ceel

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Registered: 2011-04-02

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Re: WANTED: version.h

Hi shann,

Thank you for your answer.

Yes, [c]version.h[/c] exists in [c]/usr/include/linux/[/c] ([c]linux-api-headers[/c]) and in [c]/usr/src/linux-3.16.55-slitaz/include/linux[/c] ([c]linux-module-headers[/c]). I copied the file in [c]/lib/modules/3.16.55-slitaz/build[/c] 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 [c]nouveau[/c].

shann

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Re: WANTED: version.h

Hi Ceel,

Nice to read this .

If understand, this computer run with SliTaz 4.0 and nouveau ?

Ceel

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Registered: 2011-04-02

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Re: WANTED: version.h

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.

[c]nouveau[/c] does not exist in SliTaz 4.0; I recompiled [c]linux[/c], [c]linux-drm[/c] and create [c]libdrm-nouveau[/c] a few years ago to have it. But SliTaz 4.0 has nowaday really limited possibilities