Tag: kernel version

Linux Find Out GNU gcc Compiler Version Used To Compile Running Kernel

Posted on in Categories last updated February 23, 2012

I‘ve multiple version of gcc installed on my systems as follows:

ls -l /usr/bin/gcc*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 11 05:20 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-4.4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 239528 Sep 21 2010 /usr/bin/gcc-4.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 255536 Nov 15 2010 /usr/bin/gcc-4.4

I need to build a nvidia device driver using the same version of GNU compiler as was used to compile the currently running kernel. How do I find out the version of my GNU gcc compiler that was used by upstream Linux distribution to compile and pack my binary Linux kernel?

Linux Nvidia: NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00.0 Has Fallen Off The Bus Error and Solution

Posted on in Categories , last updated July 7, 2012

I‘m using NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module version (driver) 280.13 under Debian 64 bit Linux with Linux kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64. However, I’m getting the following errors in my /var/log/messages file

Feb 13 05:53:39 wks01 kernel: [26652.425207] NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00.0 has fallen off the bus.
Feb 14 03:59:14 wks01 kernel: [39846.244283] NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00.0 has fallen off the bus.
Feb 17 04:47:32 wks01 kernel: [35237.485871] NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00.0 has fallen off the bus.
Feb 18 06:53:19 wks01 kernel: [49298.937949] NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00.0 has fallen off the bus.
Feb 19 06:14:01 wks01 kernel: [28508.567838] NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00.0 has fallen off the bus.

This error occurs randomly and my laptop goes in hard freez mode. The hard reboot is the only way to recover from complete freeze of my Dell M6500 Debian Linux based laptop. How do I fix this problem?

Safely Remove / Delete Old Linux Kernel from a Linux Server

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We have four different versions of Linux kernel installed by the yum command under CentOS Linux. Currently, I am using only latest version 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5. What is proper and suggested method to remove old kernels from a CemtOS / Debian Linux server?