Problems with NVIDIA - gcc ver check fails

[timelord726]

When I installed Fedora on my computer, my first step was to install the NVIDIA drivers. When I installed it on my brother's machine, I did the same for him. However, when I tried installing the drivers on his machine (and on another machine I worked on), I receive this strange error message that has been driving me mad.

gcc-version-check failed:

./usr/src/nv/conftest.sh: line 1: cc: command not found
could not compile gcc-version-check.c

I've been beating on it for a very long time now and I can't beat it. I've tried updating my binutils, modutils, and gcc (but upgrading gcc fails in both yum and apt). What's the matter?

Please offer me some help, my brother's really yelling at me that he can't play his precious games.

[BloodyBullet]

Originally Posted by timelord726

When I installed Fedora on my computer, my first step was to install the NVIDIA drivers. When I installed it on my brother's machine, I did the same for him. However, when I tried installing the drivers on his machine (and on another machine I worked on), I receive this strange error message that has been driving me mad.

gcc-version-check failed:

./usr/src/nv/conftest.sh: line 1: cc: command not found
could not compile gcc-version-check.c

I've been beating on it for a very long time now and I can't beat it. I've tried updating my binutils, modutils, and gcc (but upgrading gcc fails in both yum and apt). What's the matter?

Please offer me some help, my brother's really yelling at me that he can't play his precious games.

Have you tried to install the devels?

[kerosin]

The NVIDIA drvier seem buggy at the moment. The following worked well for me:
Extract the driver files:
nvidia-installer -x
Then change the following file in the new directory:
usr/src/nv/conftest.sh
in line 8 from
CC="$1"
to
CC = "gcc"

Good luck...

[tashirosgt]

You don't necessarily need the latest gcc, you need the version that your borther's kernel was compiled with.

[gnjunior]

Originally Posted by timelord726

When I installed Fedora on my computer, my first step was to install the NVIDIA drivers. When I installed it on my brother's machine, I did the same for him. However, when I tried installing the drivers on his machine (and on another machine I worked on), I receive this strange error message that has been driving me mad.

gcc-version-check failed:

./usr/src/nv/conftest.sh: line 1: cc: command not found
could not compile gcc-version-check.c

I've been beating on it for a very long time now and I can't beat it. I've tried updating my binutils, modutils, and gcc (but upgrading gcc fails in both yum and apt). What's the matter?

Please offer me some help, my brother's really yelling at me that he can't play his precious games.

Hi,
I had the same; I did "yum install gcc"