nvidia-kernel-dkms fails to build nvidia driver with backport kernel

[John Coltrane]

Hello Vincent,

thanks for your reply.

Shame on me. I have already wondered why there are no nvidia related
packages in backports, but when looking at the appropriate line in
/etc/apt/sources.list I saw that I had to add "contrib non-free" to it:

deb http://my.backports.mirror/debian wheezy-backports main

Now I have installed

nvidia-glx                                  319.72-1~bpo70+1

and this one builds with both linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-amd64 and
linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64

And in a first test it looks that my USB related probs also have gone
away away :-)

Merry xmas and a happy new year,

-John


On 12/26/2013 04:37 AM, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 7:17 PM, John Coltrane
> <johnColtrane39 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> hopefully this is the right place to post my problem.
>>
>> My box runs mostly on wheezy, rarely with packages from wheezy-backports.
>>
>> Normally kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64 from stable is used on my box, but I need
>> to have kernel linux-image-3.11-0.bpo.2-amd64 from backports.
>>
>> There already is nvidia-* 304.88-1+deb7u1 on my box, accompanied by dkms
>> 2.2.0.3-1.2 and nvidia-kernel-dkms 304.88-1+deb7u1. The headerfiles are
>> also installed:
>>
>> ii linux-headers-3.11-0.bpo.2-all 3.11.10-1~bpo70+1 amd64 All header
>> files for Linux 3.11 (meta-package)
>> ii linux-headers-3.11-0.bpo.2-all-amd64 3.11.10-1~bpo70+1 amd64 All
>> header files for Linux 3.11 (meta-package)
>> ii linux-headers-3.11-0.bpo.2-amd64 3.11.10-1~bpo70+1 amd64 Header files
>> for Linux 3.11-0.bpo.2-amd64
>> ii linux-headers-3.11-0.bpo.2-common 3.11.10-1~bpo70+1 amd64 Common
>> header files for Linux 3.11-0.bpo.2
>>
>> The headerfiles for 3.2.0-4-amd64 are also installed. With 3.2.0-4 all
>> is working well (nvidia related).
>>
>> gcc is version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-14), both the stable and the
>> backports kernels are compiled with this version.
>>
>> When nvidia-dkms tries to build the nvidia.ko kernelmodule for 3.11-0 it
>> fails, here are the last few lines (where an error comes up) from
>> /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/304.88/build/make.log:
>>
>> /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/304.88/build/nv-i2c.c: In function
>> ‘nv_i2c_del_adapter’:
>> /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/304.88/build/nv-i2c.c:327:14: error: void value not
>> ignored as it ought to be
>> make[4]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/304.88/build/nv-i2c.o] Error 1
>> make[3]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/304.88/build] Error 2
>> make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.11-0.bpo.2-amd64'
>> make: *** [modules] Error 2
>> make: Leaving directory `/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/304.88/build'
> The nvidia kernel module often fails to build with newer kernels than
> what was released at the time, and vice versa. IIRC there were lots of
> bug reports about nvidia failing to build against linux 3.10 (e.g.
> #717311, #717361, #714981), which were later fixed when Andreas added
> a patch to fix those build failures, but I'm not sure if anyone ever
> tried building something from the 304.xx branch with linux 3.11. Your
> best bet would be to try a newer version (319.72) from
> wheezy-backports, which, according to the changelog [1], does support
> linux 3.11.
>
> Regards,
> Vincent
>
> [1] http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs//non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-graphics-drivers_319.72-1~bpo70+1_changelog