Ati Driver 8.42 + Mandriva 2008 = Unsolved problems

[Yayoooli]

I tried to install the new ati driver on Mandriva 2008
1/ the buildpkg gives:

Generating package: Mandriva/2008
Package build failed!
Package build utility output:
error: file /root/tmp/ati.p14341/SOURCES/ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run missing: No such file or directory

Then if I remove all the ati drivers etc.. and I try the direct install using ./ati... then the flgrx-install.log gives:

Error:
kernel includes at /lib/modules/2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv/build/include do not match current kernel.
they are versioned as ""
instead of "2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv".
you might need to adjust your symlinks:
- /usr/include
- /usr/src/linux
[Error] Kernel Module : Failed to compile kernel module - please consult readme.

It's very annoying and I can't solve this problem, Do some of you experienced the same thing with Mandriva 2008? Is the someone who proceeded well the installation ??
Help

[Yayoooli]

noone got MAndriva 2008?
Just to be accurate, I4ve got a radeon 2400HD
Think I've to wait for the rpms...

[Jorge]

[QUOTE=Yayoooli;16374]

Error:
kernel includes at /lib/modules/2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv/build/include do not match current kernel.
they are versioned as ""
instead of "2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv".
you might need to adjust your symlinks:
- /usr/include
- /usr/src/linux
[Error] Kernel Module : Failed to compile kernel module - please consult readme.

Hallo,
the problem is exactly what installator says - he cant compile kernel module because you have no sources/headers of current kernel installed.
Solution is simple: install kernel-[installed_kernel_variant]-devel package.
So for you it will be:

urpmi kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.22.9-1mdv

[DarkFoss]

After you removed the old ATI drivers make sure you still have dkms
dkms-minimal and kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.22.9-1mdv installed.
The kernel-devel files for kernel-desktop-2.6.22.9-1mdv
This package contains the kernel-devel files that should be enough to build 3rdparty drivers against for use with kernel-desktop-2.6.22.9-1mdv.

The script to generate the rpm's is broken but I was able to install using ATI's installer.

[Yayoooli]

unfortunately:

[root@localhost olivier]# urpmi kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.22.9-1mdv
the package kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.22.9-1mdv-1-1mdv2008.0.i586 is already installed

that's why I'm lost...

[DarkFoss]

I've seen one of the dkms rpm's removed when uninstalling the Mandriva ATI drivers.

Usually the dkms-2.0.17-13mdv2008.0

[Yayoooli]

Hi DarkFoss
can you be a little more specific especially for the kernel files and how to build a 3rd party driver. It will be great

[twistedself]

I have the same problem here. I have gone a bit further though. I have extracted the 8.42.3 files and tweaked the ati-installer.sh in packages/Mandriva to find the .run file. Problem is after I do that I get a bunch of RPM errors saying duplicate libGL.so and libGL.so.1 and a bunch of other errors... I had the same issue with 8.41 drivers.. eventually just went back to 8.40.

I would really love it if someone would figure out the packaging for Mandriva....

Chris

[Yayoooli]

I would really love it if someone would figure out the packaging for Mandriva....

Chris

I read somewhere that the packages were in preparation and should be released soon (non_free_backup_ports) but I'm still waiting for them...
I hope they gonna be released soon someone got news???

[Jorge]

I have the same problem here. I have gone a bit further though. I have extracted the 8.42.3 files and tweaked the ati-installer.sh in packages/Mandriva to find the .run file. Problem is after I do that I get a bunch of RPM errors saying duplicate libGL.so and libGL.so.1 and a bunch of other errors... I had the same issue with 8.41 drivers.. eventually just went back to 8.40.

I would really love it if someone would figure out the packaging for Mandriva....

Chris

Maybe this could help:

Also, when I installed it (on Gutsy), it seems the package did not create a necessary symbolic link (ie. in /usr/lib libGL.so.1 was not found, but libGL.so.1.2 was, so I created a symbolic pointing from libGL.so.1 to libGL.so.1.2 and it did the trick).