[sclug] Trouble installing NVidia kernel module with custom kernel

[Will Dickson]

Taiyo Rawle wrote:
> 'evening all!
> 
> I have an odd problem:
> 
> I'm using Mandriva LE2005, but with a custom kernel
> (built from the 2.6.11-11 source from kernel.org and
> the kraxel patches to get my nova-T DVB card working)
> The only other options I fiddled with before building
> are to turn on preemtability 

Maybe just be some peculiarity with my hardware, but when I tried 
turning this on, my system locked up.

> 
> I've read that this happens if the kernel and module
> were compiled using different versions of GCC (3.3 and
> 3.4), but unless the NV installer includes it's own
> version then both were built using GCC 3.4.3 that
> shipped with LE2005...

Doesn't the nVidia stuff have a binary-only section for which you don't 
get the source? If so, presumably that section was compiled with 
whatever GCC nVidia use in-house.

HTH

Will.