openSUSE 11.2 and NI-KAL

[Cepera]

I have to reinstall openSUSE and I thought I might try release 11.2. Therefore a question: has anyone tried it? Does it work with LabVIEW 2009 and in particular with NI-KAL 1.10? Thanks!

[mhoogend]

NI-KAL 1.10 will not install out-of-the-box on openSUSE 11.2.  First thing is that the init_mm symbol is finally not exported and breaks compilation.  We have also found that by simply re-exporting init_mm you will still get crashes in normal operation.  So far we don't have any more information than that.

[poreef]

I am in the exact same boat.  I found that I had to download the 2.6.28.10 kernel from www.kernel.org and compile my own kernel.  It allowd NIKAL 1.10 to build successfully.  Note that NI-DAQMX 8.0.1 comes with NIKAL 1.09 built-in and you have to get NIKAL 1.10 separately.

IIRC this was the order of operations:

1. Successfully build 2.6.28.10 kernel

(Basically I copied the config file from the stock 2.6.31 kernel in OpenSUSE 11.2 and pared it down a bit)

2. Install NIKAL 1.10

3. Install NI-DAQmx 8.0.1 (it will detect the presence of NIKAL 1.10 and not try to install 1.09)

4. Run updateNIdrivers so that the NI-DAQmx drivers are rebuilt against NIKAL 1.10

How easy you find this will depend on your experience.