NVIDIA kernel Driver - a better solution

**Mandragor** · 4th October 2009, 10:54 AM

Hi,

in this forum a solution was posted how in the alpha/beta kernel the nvidia drivers could be activated.
However this is much effort and it didn't work for me, because my kernel always crashed when i turned of the debugging options as suggested by the author. Therefore after some internet search i have another solution. Basically the problem is one kernel function which has a GPL Tag and this will make some checking in the build fail. Therefore if we don't set the GPL symbol in the build, the check will not fail. This is a bandaid i know. But the current nouveau driver are a mess for my two linux computers both with nvidia cards.

1. Create directory "nvidia"

2. Download the Nvidia Driver from http://www.nvidia.de/Download/Find.aspx

use the current BETA DRIVER
at time of writing this is "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.32-pkg2.run"

3. Create the files "build-nvidia.sh" and "Makefile.kbuild.patch"
(see below)

4. Before you can run the build script you need to make sure that the
nouveau driver is not activated on boot. Therefore you need
to add nouveau.modeset=0 to the kernel options. See example
below , add only the text in bold!

5. Reboot

5. Go to linux console, turn off X-Server e.g. with "init 3"

6. run "build-nvidia.sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.32-pkg2.run"

7. Now it should build and work as expected ;-)

Have Fun!

Mandragor

The following files need to be in the directory "nvidia"

File "build-nvidia.sh"

Code:

#!/bin/sh
NVIDIA_PACKAGE=$1
if [ ! $NVIDIA_PACKAGE  ];then
  echo "build-nvidia.sh PACKAGE_NAME"
  exit
fi

TARGET=nvidia-module
if [ -d $TARGET ]; then
  rm -rf $TARGET
fi
sh $NVIDIA_PACKAGE -x --target $TARGET

cd $TARGET
cat ../Makefile.kbuild.patch |patch -p1
./nvidia-installer -a

File Makefile.kbuild.patch

Code:

--- nvidia-module/usr/src/nv/Makefile.kbuild    2009-09-02 12:42:28.000000000 +0200
+++ nvidia-module/usr/src/nv/Makefile.kbuild.mod        2009-10-04 10:38:36.000000000 +0200
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@
 EXTRA_CFLAGS += -I$(src)
 EXTRA_CFLAGS += -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wno-multichar -Werror -mcmodel=kernel -mno-red-zone -fno-defer-pop -MD $(DEFINES) $(INCLUDES) -Wsign-compare -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error

+LOCKDEP_INIT_MAP:=$(shell grep "T lockdep_init_map" /boot/System.map-$(shell uname -r) |colrm 17)
+EXTRA_LDFLAGS := --defsym lockdep_init_map=0x$(LOCKDEP_INIT_MAP)
+
 #
 # We rely on these two definitions below; if they aren't set, we set them to
 # reasonable defaults (Linux 2.4's KBUILD, and top-level passes will not set

Example Entry for grub.conf with nouveau.option added. DO NOT COPY THIS INTO "grub.conf".
Only add the nouveau.conf (in bold) at the end of the line in your grub.conf.

Code:

title Fedora (2.6.31.1-56.local.fc12.x86_64)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.1-56.local.fc12.x86_64 ro root=UUID=XXX rhgb quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=de-latin1-nodeadkeys rd_plytheme=text nouveau.modeset=0
        initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.1-56.local.fc12.x86_64.img

leigh123linux · 4th October 2009, 11:22 AM

It would be better to use 190.36 (it supports the Xorg version) , there is a easier way to patch the driver

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/show....php?p=2091962

64 bit

Code:

su
wget ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/190.36/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.36-pkg2.run
wget http://leigh123linux.fedorapeople.org/pub/patches/2.6.31_patch/nvidia.patch
chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.36-pkg2.run
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.36-pkg2.run --apply-patch nvidia.patch

This creates a patched .run file that can be installed .

P.S thanks for the patch, I will test it later on my F12 install.

.

**Mandragor** · 4th October 2009, 11:44 AM

Hi,

thanks for the advice. Works fine - at least on my computer ;-)

Regards

leigh123linux · 4th October 2009, 12:15 PM

Thank you for the patch it works fine here.

**NoFate** · 4th October 2009, 11:12 PM

Well, good solution, but here is some update because of usage specific app "colrm". It's better to use "cut"

LOCKDEP_INIT_MAP:=$(shell grep "T lockdep_init_map" /boot/System.map-$(shell uname -r) |cut -d" " -f1)

**chepioq** · 6th October 2009, 03:55 PM

Thank for that...
I install nvidia drivers with Leigh method, and that work...

**chepioq** · 7th October 2009, 03:03 PM

There working one day...
yesterday , there are been updates (among which xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.0-1.fc12.x86_64 and xorg-x11-server-common-1.7.0-1.fc12.x86_64 ) and now I have no open-gl , desktop effects of kde won't work...
Should I uninstall the nvidia drivers when there is update of xorg?

leigh123linux · 7th October 2009, 03:07 PM

Originally Posted by chepioq

There working one day...
yesterday , there are been updates (among which xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.0-1.fc12.x86_64 and xorg-x11-server-common-1.7.0-1.fc12.x86_64 ) and now I have no open-gl , desktop effects of kde won't work...
Should I uninstall the nvidia drivers when there is update of xorg?

The Xorg update has overwritten some of the nvidia files, rerun the nvidia installer.

**chepioq** · 7th October 2009, 05:24 PM

Thank leigh, but re-run the nvidia installer don't work.
Do an --uninstall and run the nvidia installer work...

**rockdoctor** · 8th October 2009, 02:18 PM

Thank you mandragor and leigh!

Time to bring my Rawhide installation up to date. I've been running xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.1.901-1.fc11 and kernel-2.6.31-0.190.rc8.fc12.x86_64 for more than three weeks now just so I could have a working X. In fact, recent nightly composes wouldn't give a working X even when using the vesa driver. The patched nvidia driver worked without a hitch with the LXDE Oct 7 nightly compose running off a live USB stick. Thanks again.

**mailga** · 8th October 2009, 10:27 PM

It works fine for us. Thank you
http://www.fedoraonline.it/modules/m...?lid=237&cid=7

Mailga (fedoraonline.it - the italian Fedora community)

**NoFate** · 8th October 2009, 10:31 PM

Originally Posted by chepioq

There working one day...
yesterday , there are been updates (among which xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.0-1.fc12.x86_64 and xorg-x11-server-common-1.7.0-1.fc12.x86_64 ) and now I have no open-gl , desktop effects of kde won't work...
Should I uninstall the nvidia drivers when there is update of xorg?

There is a simple solution:
1. Login under root
2. Go to /usr/lib(64)/xorg/modules/extensions
3. Move libglx.so to libglx.so.orig (it may be removed but I don't recommed it)
4. Linking nvidia libglx.so.193.36 within libglx.so
5. Logout and Login

**Jongi** · 11th October 2009, 07:37 PM

getting this error

Code:

[root@jongi-main video]# ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.36-pkg2.run --apply-patch nvidia.patch
Verifying archive integrity... OK
Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 190.36.............................................................................................................................................................
Couldn't locate the 'patch' utility.
[root@jongi-main video]# ls
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.36-pkg2.run  nvidia.patch

**chepioq** · 11th October 2009, 07:47 PM

Originally Posted by Jongi

getting this error

Code:

[root@jongi-main video]# ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.36-pkg2.run --apply-patch nvidia.patch
Verifying archive integrity... OK
Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 190.36.............................................................................................................................................................
Couldn't locate the 'patch' utility.
[root@jongi-main video]# ls
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.36-pkg2.run  nvidia.patch

Have you the package patch installed?

Code:

yum install patch patchutils

**Jongi** · 11th October 2009, 07:51 PM

no i had not

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