anyone come forward with how to setup the headers properly?

It's listed earlier in the thread, and in the VMWareServer Wiki page. I can't say whether this is overkill though, there may be easier ways.

I looked at the cited wiki page. The word headers was mentioned but does not explain what they are, where to find them or what they look like.

Also, I can see people using the word header in this thread, but it is NOT connected with any file or set of commands - it's only mentioned in passing. Clarification of what these elusive headers look like is necessary.

I think most of the people seeing answers on these forums are trying to learn Linux by example. It's impossible to learn how-to when the examples are not complete.

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Apologies for causing you frustration, but it's very hard to anticipate what may be confusing people.

C code (like the linux kernel), is typically composed of headers and source. Headers are effectively a definition of the interface to the source, which is the actual code - so given the headers a package knows how to interact with the kernel properly. Other packages require this to build.

R5E50 installs the headers by default - they're all there. However, many packages seem to reject them as inadequate for various reasons (like VMWare), so a solution is to get the kernel source and compile it in full - then VMWare et al seem happy with the headers contained in the built source tree. That's what the steps in the VMWare wiki do, and it does say "The installation needs kernel headers and those installed don't cut it.", before explaining how to resolve this issue.

If what you're trying to achieve isn't satisfied by the installed headers, try installing the source as laid out here and in the wiki, and it should be ok.

Which method is best for getting the source ready for compiling everything it seems people are needing to compile: LIRC, Nvidia drivers, VMWare.


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I hope one of them will work with LIRC because I still have no remotes on my two machines.

I suspect they all work, but I can definitely say that #2 works.

Thanks. #2 above works. i was able to install the latest nvidia drivers with it. It didn't work for compiling LIRC from the sid source (failed at the make step). A warning is that it takes a long time to run make on the kernel source.

I am still failing to build lirc (version 0.8.1).
I have installed kernel source, copied the .config, built, and set the /usr/src/linux link to the source directory -- as described in the first posting in this thread. That seems to have gone fine (it DOES take a long time!)
The lirc configure still fails... the last several messages are:

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

ebeighe you need --with-kerneldir=/usr/src/linux \
--prefix=/usr \ in your configure.sh, but you'll still get stuck. Post your results in this thread
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=82400#82400

Thanks. Those two extra switches in configure.sh did the trick -- at least insofar as I can now configure and compile lirc without errors.

I had thought it was a problem with the way my kernel sources were installed or whatever. But i guess it was just a peculiarity in lirc(?)

did you need to apt-get remove lirc first?

can you make && make install?

If you can that almost certainly means I need to reinstall and start with a clean R5E50. I think something in my kernel module configuration got screwed up in my early attempts to get this working.

Is there any possibility of upgrading the kernel to 2.6.19 or higher to get the k8temp module into R5E50? sensors-detect added k8temp to /etc/modules. GkrellM will not display AMD Athlon 64 core temperatures without it.

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Sure, just DL the source from kernel.org, and build it. You may want to grab the configuration (and any patches) that Cecil used from his 2.6.18 bundle.

Do they even sell 640 MB CD's anymore?

I had to build the kernel source to get the latest ivtv (0.10.0) to build. Option 2 worked for me with one additional step ...



that link was still pointing at the headers, and that was tripping up the make.