package fglrx (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: fglrx kernel module failed to build

[Jace Prince]

Trying to install fglrx and it fails on the build, everytime, oddly works in Wubi though.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: fglrx (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.43-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 17 23:05:23 2010
DkmsStatus:

ErrorMessage: fglrx kernel module failed to build
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Studio XPS 8100
PackageVersion: 2:8.723.1-0ubuntu4
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic root=UUID=c3cde142-5a96-49d3-9c8e-353866763784 ro
SourcePackage: fglrx-installer
Title: package fglrx (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: fglrx kernel module failed to build
dmi.bios.date: 12/09/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A03
dmi.board.name: 0T568R
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA03:bd12/09/2009:svnDellInc.:pnStudioXPS8100:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0T568R:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Studio XPS 8100
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: x86_64
 kernel: 2.6.32-24-generic

[Ufuk (ufukkilicaslan)]

I also get this errors when try to install ATI driver on kernel linux-image-2.6.32-24.43. There is sign that this error is related to kernel update 2.6.32-24.43. Look at the DKMS build.log that OP posted:

/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.723.1/build/2.6.x/kcl_ioctl.c: In function ‘KCL_IOCTL_AllocUserSpace32’:
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.723.1/build/2.6.x/kcl_ioctl.c:196: error: implicit declaration of function ‘compat_alloc_user_space’

In the changelog of 2.6.32-24.43 generic kernel there are the lines:

  * x86-64, compat: Retruncate rax after ia32 syscall entry tracing
    - CVE-2010-3301
  * compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok()
    - CVE-2010-3081

I thinks these changes are related to fglrx build errors. I want to try a previous version of 2.6.32-24 generic kernel. Because ATI drivers works with 2.6.32-23 generic kernel. Anyone know where can I find the previous versions of 2.6.32-24 generic kernel?