On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:03:59 -0700
Mark Knecht <markknecht@...> wrote:

>
>    I hadn't played with this since you first posted but I've been
> waiting for a new nvidia-driver to solve the problem and not seen it.
> As my laptop uses vanilla-sources I was stuck but also not really
> wanting to do the patch you did.
> 

It's not much of a patch.  It involves only copying a few files
from one directory to another.  Apparently, these files are
auto-generated by the new kernel and placed in the wrong location
(wrong for Nvidia).

>
> Anyway, for kicks this morning I tried gentoo-sources-3.3.0 and
> found that nvidia-drivers builds & runs fine with that kernel.
> 

Out of habit, I still use the kernel sources from kernel.org.
I have an automated build/install for this from a long time
back.  But maybe I'll look into the gentoo-sources one day.
Thanks for the tip.

However, checking the Changelog for gentoo-sources I do not
see any indication of a possible patch to fix 3.3.0.  Maybe
I'm just not looking in the right place.

Frank Peters