As luck would have it my Asus board needs to run on v256 because anything higher the audio dies after an X reboot (See nVidia Asus Board Gefore 8330.
But starting with kernel 3.0 it will no longer compile, so out came the hacker in me and started hacking away at the files and i got it to work. Not much modification needs to be made to get it to work actually. Most of it is just test to make sure the kernel is a hard-coded compatible one.
Here is how to do it
1) Download the driver
v256.53 64x
v256.53 32
2) make is executable
chmod a+x NVIDIA-Linux-i386-256.53.run
3) start the installation process with the –keep command line
./NVIDIA-Linux-i386-256.53.run --keep
4) when the License agrement hits, press CTRL+c to stop the installation
5) Create a patch file in your fav editor (vi, nano, what ever)
diff -u NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.53/kernel/conftest.sh kernel/conftest.sh
--- NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.53/kernel/conftest.sh 2010-08-27 23:28:03.000000000 -0400
+++ kernel/conftest.sh 2011-12-30 18:17:02.927239154 -0500
@@ -76,10 +76,9 @@
}
build_cflags() {
- BASE_CFLAGS="-D__KERNEL__ \
+ BASE_CFLAGS="-O2 -D__KERNEL__ \
-DKBUILD_BASENAME=\"#conftest$$\" -DKBUILD_MODNAME=\"#conftest$$\" \
-nostdinc -isystem $ISYSTEM"
-
if [ "$OUTPUT" != "$SOURCES" ]; then
OUTPUT_CFLAGS="-I$OUTPUT/include2 -I$OUTPUT/include"
if [ -f "$OUTPUT/include/generated/autoconf.h" ]; then
diff -u NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.53/kernel/nv.c kernel/nv.c
--- NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.53/kernel/nv.c 2010-08-27 23:28:03.000000000 -0400
+++ kernel/nv.c 2011-12-30 18:17:10.259238711 -0500
@@ -423,7 +423,6 @@
static struct file_operations nv_fops = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.poll = nv_kern_poll,
- .ioctl = nv_kern_ioctl,
#if defined(HAVE_UNLOCKED_IOCTL)
.unlocked_ioctl = nv_kern_unlocked_ioctl,
#endif
diff -u NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.53/kernel/nv-linux.h kernel/nv-linux.h
--- NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.53/kernel/nv-linux.h 2010-08-27 23:28:03.000000000 -0400
+++ kernel/nv-linux.h 2011-12-30 18:17:06.935238932 -0500
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
# error This driver does not support 2.5 kernels!
#elif LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2, 7, 0)
# define KERNEL_2_6
+#elif LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3, 1, 99)
+# define KERNEL_2_6
#else
# error This driver does not support development kernels!
#endif
@@ -87,7 +89,7 @@
#if !defined(KERNEL_2_4)
#include /* suser(), capable() replacement */
#include /* module_param() */
-#include /* kernel_locked */
+/*#include /* kernel_locked */
#include /* flush_tlb(), flush_tlb_all() */
#include /* page table entry lookup */
#endif
6) patch your insatllation (where yourpatch.diff is the filename of the patch you just created)
patch -p0 < yourpatch.diff
7) run the nvidia installer
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.53/nvidia-installer
8) Continue as normal