Can't compile driver under 2.6.33 kernel

[Sibi.D]

I am trying to compile the newest NV driver (190.53) after the compilation of new 2.6.33 kernel, The execution procedure getting failed to function properly and occurred the message as " It can't determine the kernel version".

I have also tried to execute --kernel-source-path, but still interacting with the same behavior. If it matters, other external modules I had to compile, like a VBox driver, occurred no any issues like that.

[Eric B]

Hello dude,

You have executed well with the Vbox because that doesn't any patches support or anything to be execute. But in case of the NV driver, For the execution of the NV driver you need to have some patch to compile specially with 190.53 .

Alternative install the latest beta-driver and execute normally with the 2.6.33 kernel.
Thanks

[Glenny]

According to me, The issue that you are talking about is not related to that bug, because the nvidia 195.36.03 driver is not supported to work with kernel 2.6.33 and it should support with kernel 2.6.33 without any patches.

It commonly has something to do with his kernel sources not being installed, selected or compiled. In particular, if you installed a latest kernel version and destroyed the old kernel version, the previous kernel version will likely still be selected that will cause issues when compiling drivers that depend on the kernel sources being installed.

[JonathanD]

Situating fake kernel sources during simple patch from nvidia/linux site is available?

Find out the mentioned patch and run the following without root privilege:

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.30-pkg1.run --apply-patch nvidia-2.6.33.patch.txt

Then after,you would get something like this at the end of execution of the above command :

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.30-pkg1-custom.run
package so original file will not be overwritten

Then after execute the command associated with the SUDO :

sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.30-pkg1-custom.run -N -s


NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.30-pkg1.run contains some necessary performance improvements, so I would suggest to download this beta.

[Macarenas]

Hello guys,
I got the exact solution for this, Now I resolved it with a patch and nvidia-drivers-190.53-r1.

By the way, At the time of broadcom-sta execution, my kernel-2.6.33 provides me some missing files error.so I have emerging again the source and now broadcom-sta executes very fine. Perhaps now nvidia-drivers-195.xx.xx could be executed but I am unable to try it now.

Thanks