installing latest Nvidia driver: gcc version check [Solved]

[cindy]

My desktop machine which runs a Nvidia GTX 470 video card with a manually installed 256.35 driver stopped working properly.  The desktop wouldn't load. Among the errors:  "Fatal sever error. No screens found."  This may have been related to an update I had done earlier.  Eventually I managed to get the desktop back after running XFdrake as root and selecting the "GEForce 400 series or later" video driver.  But now few of the fancy desktop effects are working. After checking the Nvidia site I discovered that they have released a more recent driver for my card (270.41.19) which I downloaded and attempted to install. The installation stopped midway. Here is the error message from the nvidia-installer.log:

The compiler used to compile the kernel (gcc 4.4) does not exactly match the current compiler (gcc 4.5).  The Linux 2.6 kernel module loader rejects kernel modules built with a version of gcc that does not exactly match that of the compiler used to build the running kernel.
  
If you know what you are doing and want to ignore the gcc version check, select "No" to continue installation.  Otherwise, select "Yes" to abort installation, set the CC environment variable to the name of the compiler used to compile your kernel, and restart installation.  Abort now? (Answer: Yes)
ERROR: Installation has failed.

Can someone please help?  Should I ignore the gcc version check and just proceed with the installation?

 

[Texstar]

You should install 270.41.19 from our repository not from the nvidia site.

[Old-Polack]

My desktop machine which runs a Nvidia GTX 470 video card with a manually installed 256.35 driver stopped working properly.  The desktop wouldn't load. Among the errors:  "Fatal sever error. No screens found."  This may have been related to an update I had done earlier.  Eventually I managed to get the desktop back after running XFdrake as root and selecting the "GEForce 400 series or later" video driver.  But now few of the fancy desktop effects are working. After checking the Nvidia site I discovered that they have released a more recent driver for my card (270.41.19) which I downloaded and attempted to install. The installation stopped midway. Here is the error message from the nvidia-installer.log:

The compiler used to compile the kernel (gcc 4.4) does not exactly match the current compiler (gcc 4.5).  The Linux 2.6 kernel module loader rejects kernel modules built with a version of gcc that does not exactly match that of the compiler used to build the running kernel.
   
If you know what you are doing and want to ignore the gcc version check, select "No" to continue installation.  Otherwise, select "Yes" to abort installation, set the CC environment variable to the name of the compiler used to compile your kernel, and restart installation.  Abort now? (Answer: Yes)
ERROR: Installation has failed.

Can someone please help?  Should I ignore the gcc version check and just proceed with the installation?

 

Install the correct driver through Synaptic. It's listed as dkms-nvidia-current. Both the dkms package and the appropriate driver will be installed.

Note: You should first click Reload, then Mark All Upgrades, then Apply, and again Apply from the confirmation window. Once the system is fully upgraded, click Search, type nvidia in the box, then click the Search button, or press the Enter key. Click the box in front of the dkms-nvidia-current item and choose Mark for Installation. Accept the confirmation window, and click Apply and again Apply. After the driver has been installed, close Synaptic and reboot.

[cindy]

That worked - thank you!!!!