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Hi, |
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Did you upgrade your kernel in the recent emerge? Do a 'ls -la /usr/src' to |
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check that the symb-link is pointing to the current kernel. Otherwise a |
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recompile of nvidia-kernel will produce a module for the wrong kernel |
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version. |
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Best regards, |
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Andreas Karlsson |
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Sweden |
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On Sunday 16 July 2006 21:51, Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> Can someone give me some guidance with regard to setting up xorg-x11-7.0-r1 |
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> to work with my Gainward GeForce 4 video card? Everything was working just |
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> fine with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 but after an emerge, X refuses to run! I get |
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> the following complaint in my Xorg.0.log file: |
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> |
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> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module! |
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> (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** |
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> |
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> I've tried installing (unstable) nvidia-drivers and nvidia-legacy-drivers, |
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> but the kernel complains about an invlaid kernel module. I get the same |
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> error if I use the (stable) nvidia-kernel module. My current kernel |
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> version is 2.6.15-gentoo-r1. I can't go backwards. Because xorg-x11 has |
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> been so thoroughly reorganized and modularized I have something like 134 |
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> blockers (individual packages!) which would have to be individually removed |
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> before I could back-version to my previous xorg-x11. |
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