I'm sorry, I won't be able to meet up this weekend.

Have you rebooted the machine?  There are init scripts that are run at 
boot time that set things up.  That may make a difference.

Brian Cluff

On 09/14/2018 07:11 PM, Matthew Gibson wrote:
> Matt, Thanks for the ideas.
> Brian, That link made progress. the software is installed now and I 
> can load it. But it tells me my device is not connected or powered.... 
> which is scary since it is plugged into the PCIe slot..... Do you have 
> some time to possibly meet me where this machine is located and help 
> me more directly? perhaps sunday afternoon or so. If you're 
> interested, let me know. I am certainly appreciative of the remote help.
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:04 AM Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com 
> <mailto:brian@snaptek.com>> wrote:
>
>     I had been looking at the error and not the version of the driver.
>     This
>     message made me look at the version of the drivers you were trying to
>     install and realized that they are very very old (released
>     February 16th
>     2015).
>
>     Download the latest version from:
>     https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/download/28c40e5147c34a3eacb279d74d576630/Linux
>
>     Just click on the "Download only" link in the lower left corner of
>     the
>     window.
>
>     This will give the the version of the software that I have
>     verified to
>     work on my own ubuntu 18.04 machine.
>
>     Brian Cluff
>
>     On 09/14/2018 09:52 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
>     > On 2018-09-13 20:47, Matthew Gibson wrote:
>     >> Sigh.... linux-headers-generic is already installed. still get this
>     >> error: https://pastebin.com/fwb1mzLq [3]
>     >> I've attached the make.log specified.
>     > [much snippage, pasting some lines from make.log]
>     >
>     > /var/lib/dkms/blackmagic-io/10.3.7a4/build/bmio_client.c:95:40:
>     > error: ‘struct file’ has no member named ‘f_dentry’; did you mean
>     > ‘f_owner’?
>     >   drv = bmio_driver_find_by_inode(filp->f_dentry->d_inode);
>     >
>     > Which kernel version was this thing supposed to be built against?
>     > There is no f_dentry in struct file any more.
>     > https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/2959 says that was
>     removed in
>     > kernel 3.19 and people are supposed to use a different macro to
>     do a
>     > similar thing. https://github.com/iperry/blackmagic-io has a newer
>     > version of this kernel module which may work better since it's got
>     > "fix compilation for kernel >= 4.2" in it.
>     >
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